France's Le Pen on track for regional power with an eye on presidency

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France's far-right National Rally party looks set to top Sunday's first round regional vote.

The National Rally are making the most of it.

Alliances made sense in some places, she told us, and given the threat posed by the far right, France's traditional parties should "ally to form a collective block against [them]".That's pretty much the score it won in the first round of the last regional elections in 2015, only to be defeated in the run-off by other parties working together to keep them from power.The pattern is so familiar to the National Rally that pollsters have nicknamed it their "glass ceiling".

"That's changed since Emmanuel Macron's victory [in 2017] erased mainstream parties. Now you have a situation where, if you don't agree with Mr Macron - and a majority of French don't agree with him - the most efficient way to express that is to vote for Marine Le Pen."President Macron was slapped in the face on a visit to south-eastern France earlier this month

 

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Le Pen Is Far, Far, Far More Honest than Macron!

Good hope she wins the presidency then there will be Frexit! The french have wanted out for years but the bell end presidents won’t tolerate it!

'SO SUPREME'...xxxx always been loved

Surely they can move past this

Again? People really don't learn, do they?

Good luck Le Pen.

Need to watch the Generals who threatened a military coup

God forbid.

Gross racist

At last, some excellent news

What a mess

This is what happens when you don’t listen to the silent majority, we’ve seen it in the States and throughout countries in Europe.

iTiffanique

Not her again. Have European countries not learned anything from this Trump disaster in the US? I hope and pray the French people have more sense than to allow a crazy right-winger to end up in the presidency. Trust and believe, they will live to regret it. We have in the US.

Nope!!

Dear Europe. French Trump is coming. It's fine.

this is terrible.

Cool.

God help us all.

That damn hobgoblin just won't go away

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