France: “A Complete Rejection of Socialist Policies.”

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France’s ruling Socialist Party lost its grip on the upper house of Parliament Sunday, its third electoral defeat in six months…  Conservative candidates won a large chunk of the 170 seats that were up for re-election, according to preliminary results released by the Senate.

“There is a complete rejection of Socialist policies,” UMP senator Roger Karoutchi told BFM TV.

The preliminary results also highlighted growing support for Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front, which has seized on widespread popular disillusionment with Mr. Hollande. The National Front won two seats on Sunday—a first for the far-right party, which had never had representatives in the upper house.

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“These results are beyond what we hoped for,” said Le Pen. “Each day that passes, our ideas are increasingly being adopted by the French people… We have great potential.”

“There is only one door left for us to push and it is that of the Elysee,” said newly-elected National Front senator Stephane Ravier, referring to the French presidency.

And the NF is picking up support from some surprising quarters.

From the window of his Paris home, Michel Ciardi can see into the waiting room of a government welfare agency where a predominantly Arab and African crowd awaits government checks.

A former communist, Ciardi once believed the scene at the agency was a necessary element of French efforts to help integrate new immigrants. But that changed in 2000 after the second Palestinian intifada triggered a massive increase in anti-Semitic violence, much of it committed by Arab and African immigrants.

The violence was enough to shift his political allegiance to the National Front, a far-right party long demonized by French Jews as anti-Semitic and a threat to republican values.

“I never considered voting National Front,” Ciardi told JTA. “But I realized you need to defend yourself, your community, society and country against those seeking to subdue us.”

 

  • Peter McDougald

    I absolutely adore France and will not return until the antisemitic hatred stops.

    • Atikva

      “I absolutely adore France…” Why?

      • objectivefactsmatter

        It is pretty nice there. The food is over-rated unless you want to spend a lot of money.

        Paris, the southern coast and the wine regions are pretty cool. Most of this you can find elsewhere though, other than seeing Parisian architecture in real life. But it’s just as plausible that actually going there will be a letdown from expectations.

        I’d say for Americans go to Northern Italy and then if you want to take a train ride in to France to check it out, you’ll at least not have totally wasted a trip to Europe.

        And beware it’s possible to run in to jihadis just about anywhere in Europe.

    • amdaman

      Just go, troll.

      • Peter McDougald

        I have examined many of your comments on Disqus. You are obviously spending your time smoking pot and masturbating in your mother’s basement. Get a life other than the races.

        • amdaman

          Obviously to you, which your diminished mental capacity makes irrelevant.

    • amdaman

      Listen to yourself talk (or read what you write), dumbass. Do you mean someone who hates anti-Semites, o who hates semites? Who cares anyway, we don’t like you here either. Troll.

      • Peter McDougald

        You need to live in Gaza. Your position is losing traction quickly due to your buddies the Islamic Terrorists. When Canada entered the First World War it had a population of 11 million raised a military of 1 million. You and your muzlim buddies keep doing what you are doing and we will raise a millitary of many million. Did the Japanese Canadians commit terrorist acts in Canada before or during their internment in camps? Watch to see round ups of you and your kind in my life time. The times they are a-changin’.

        • amdaman

          I’m no Muslim, you old redneck fart.

          • Peter McDougald

            Your lack of knowledge, education and experience is showing. Or shall I say very simply: You lack.

          • amdaman

            Everything you say is pure nonsense. You must be senile. I have to, however, commend you for knowing how to use a computer, or are you dictating to a nurse? Now go get your diapers changed.

          • Peter McDougald

            You are unable to prepare or deliver an argument. Your understanding of rhetoric is non existent. You are not very good at making ad hominem fallacy. You need to stay in the shallow end of the pool, you are out of your depth.

          • amdaman

            And do you really think your “arguments” are noteworthy? It’s all nonsense. It seems that for you it’s still 1965. Alzheimer’s must be getting pretty advanced. Go ahead, have the last word. I’ve got better things to do.

  • Patriot077

    A question in my mind is whether the National Front party is still anti-Semitic to the French Jews. I haven’t been tracking this, but I recently read that many Jews of France are moving to Israel.

    I hope that in the process of defending their communities, families, and society, this party includes the Jewish people who do not practice (and never have) any of the abominable barbarities seen in recent years.

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      It’s anti-Semitic. But less so than the Muslim wave.

      • Patriot077

        Thank you, Daniel. It is definitely encouraging!

      • TL2014

        I respectfully disagree. Marine is not like her father. FN is the answer for any French Jews who also consider themselves French.

        • Daniel_Greenfield

          She’s not like her father, she has more common sense, but she’s no Wilders either.

  • Bulan Sabriel

    The French National Front is a socialist party. They are simply a nationalist and socialist party. They are fascist.

    • edlancey

      Oh fuck off.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    The “Arabs and Africans” are not going to be happy with this turn of events. All I can say to that is: Let them eat sausage (the march of the Foreign Legion).

    • roger

      Halal sausage ?

  • Bamaguje

    The rise of anti-Islamist “far-right” parties in Europe, and their good showing in recent elections is a good sign that European are beginning to grow some spine.
    All hope is not lost… Eurabia is not inevitable.

  • Atikva

    If France had been a republic at the time of the revolutionary War, the Americans would have been left to fend for themselves. Most of the French shared Voltaire’s opinion concerning the American continent and Canada in particular: “a few acres of snow… inhabited by barbarians.. unproductive and useless”. It was King Louis XVI’s personal decision to support the American revolution in an effort to contain Britain’s colonial extension, and he entirely rebuilt France’s navy for this purpose.

    As to the “values of republicanism”, the sharing was, and still is, very limited. France changed its type of government 13 times since 1789. The National Assembly followed by the Directoire, both officially called “the 1st republic”, lasted officially only 12 years. Then it went from an Empire, to a Parliamentary monarchy, to a semi-absolute monarchy, to a limited monarchy, to another 4-year attempt at a republic followed by a second Empire and finally, in 1870, to the first of five different republics. And we haven’t seen the last of it, the way things are going now.

    Hardly comparable with the stability of the American republican institutions, not to mention the profoundly anti-religious concept of republicanism in France.

    I don’t mean to start a history lesson, but I am always amazed at the mutual misconceptions about our values and our Histories on both sides of the Atlantic.

  • reyol

    Good for France. The super-genius that can make socialism work hasn’t been born yet.

  • kevinstroup

    Marine LePen is a socialist. The French have not given up on socialism. They are just becoming more nationalistic. National socialism, where have we seen this before?

  • objectivefactsmatter

    In France “far right” is still somewhat “socialist.” True “far right” French have no real choice but to leave.

  • Larry Larkin

    I always have to chuckle at the description of any party to the right of Trotsky’s left testicle as “far right”. You never, ever see any of most lunatic leftard groups described as “far left”.

  • Daniel_Greenfield

    I support Arab Christians when they pursue their own interests, instead of acting as fronts for Islamic agendas.

    I have nothing but contempt for Jews or Christians who act as Dhimmis for their Muslim masters.

  • tambemistoevaidade

    Sorry! FN is as socialist as it can get, anti-capitalist, statist, etc.