Reuters, 07/12 15:26 CET
By Michel Rose and Leigh Thomas
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s
mainstream political parties were scrambling for a way to stop the rise
of the far-right National Front (FN) on Monday after it emerged with an
historic first-round lead in regional elections.
Boosted by fears over the Islamic State attacks that
killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13, by record unemployment and
worries about immigration, Marine Le Pen’s party secured 27.7 percent of
the vote nationally. It came first in six of 13 regions in Sunday’s
vote, the best showing in the history of the anti-Europe,
anti-immigration party.
Riding a wave of mounting euroscepticism and
anti-immigrant feeling across Europe which has brought far-right parties
to prominence, the breakthrough bolsters Le Pen’s position as a serious
contender for the 2017 presidential election.
It also exposed fault lines within both the country’s
main traditional political groupings over the right tactics to confront
the National Front in the decisive second round of the regional
elections next Sunday.
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Source: Euronews
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