France's National Front seen leading local elections: poll

[brooklynite]

Source: Reuters

France's far-right National Front party is still expected to lead first-round voting in departmental elections next month, despite a recent recovery in Socialist President Francois Hollande's ratings, an Ifop poll for Le Figaro newspaper showed.

Marine Le Pen's National Front would win 30 percent of the vote, ahead of a combined 28 percent for the conservative UMP and centrist UDI parties, with the ruling Socialist party in third place with 20 percent, according to current voting intentions.

No other party would win more than 10 percent if the vote in France's 101 departments were held now, the poll published on Sunday showed.

The Ifop survey also indicated that 53 percent of National Front supporters planned to turn out to vote in the March elections, more than the 45 percent of UMP and 44 percent of Socialist party supporters.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/22/us-france-poll-elections-idUSKBN0LQ0TA20150222

[shenmue]

1. Nooooooo

Fuck.

[iandhr]

2. I thought this was going happen...

… when I studied the European Union.


Mainstream parties on both the center right and center left in Europe pushed integration hard giving a lot of power to unelected people without giving a lot of thought to what the people wanted.


The far right has been able to tap into that anger with little response. Unless there is major EU reform we are going to (unfortunately) watch this continue.

[roamer65]

3. UK elections are going to be interesting as well.

UKIP is polling right around 15-20 pct. The anti-EU vote is getting stronger in Britain. Berlin needs to cool it.

[DonCoquixote]

4. The ugly fact is

If Marine wins, she has stated she would ditch the Euro. That would make the EU dependent on London and Berlin. Sorry, if Le Pen wins, the EU is toast, and it does not hurt the Putin knows Germany started the Ukraine mess, with the USA helping.

I hoenstly believe I will live to see Russian Tanks in Berlin.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Who's "counting" the votes? Diebold?

[Blue_Tires]

6. Ironically, the NF were huge supporters of Syriza

So it's no surprise to see the two feeding off each other, since the one goal this unholy alliance is united on is breaking up the Eurozone... http://news.yahoo.com/frances-far-hopes-radical-leftists-win-greece-195815952.html

Will Spain be the next domino to fall?