A cluster of villages along the Swiss border were the most supportive in France of candidate Marine Le Pen. According to one mayor in the villages, fears of cultural decline and loss of social status drove young voters there to Le Pen in the first round. Swissinfo.ch reports: This was true for Indevillers, a small […]
The Tragedy of the French Presidential Election
The choices are between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. As the French go to the pols today, May 7, to elect their new president, here is what they face. One candidate is the daughter of a fascist gadfly. She has been the leader of the National Front, a party whose history has been marked […]
No Killer Blow for Le Pen in Last Debate with Macron
By all accounts, Marine Le Pen left everything on the floor in the recent French presidential debate with Emmanuel Macron. But she couldn’t land a blow that knocked Macron out of the lead. Polls after the debate show strong support for Macron going into Sunday’s runoff election. It will be up to the French to […]
Do You Know Marine Le Pen?
Marine Le Pen faces Emmanuel Macron in a runoff election on May 7 for the French presidency.
Radical Islam: Who Can Solve France’s Real Problem?
Pat Buchanan asks which of the candidates in the May 7 runoff election in France can really solve France’s problem with radical Islamism? Neither candidate of the two major parties that have ruled France since Charles De Gaulle even made it into the runoff, an astonishing repudiation of France’s national elite. Marine Le Pen of […]
Healing France–the Sick Man of Europe
François Fillon’s personal scandals are not the only reason he came in third in the first round of France’s presidential voting. Don’t forget, voters rejected the ruling Socialists (Hollande’s party) along with center-right Les Republicains candidate Fillon. Voters also have not forgotten the empty promises and failures of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s six years ago. France […]
French Jihadis Go Underground to Avoid Scrutiny by Authorities
Rod Dreher exposes a new trend among French jihadis, who are shaving beards, stopping their prayers, and using other methods to avoid scrutiny from authorities. Dreher quotes from a New York Times article by Gilles Kepel, a French scholar focused on Islamic radicalism. And: With all this attention focused on them, many jihadis are now […]
UPDATE: The View from Paris: Macron the Clear Front Runner
Originally posted April 11, 2017. UPDATE: Emmanuel Macron won 23.75% of the vote, in the first round of France’s presidential election, slightly ahead of Marine Le Pen who garnered 21.53%. The two will now meet once again in second round voting on May 7. Debbie and I are on the ground in Paris today and […]
Will Macron Transcend France’s Past?
With two-thirds of the French public disapproving of Socialist President François Hollande’s market reforms, M. Hollande has the lowest approval rating of any Western leader since the end of WWII. So how is it, Emmanuel Macron, a former investment banker, economics minister and protégé of Hollande’s, has surged in popularity? Enough so to win, along with […]
Here’s What You Need to Know about the U.K.’s Snap Election
Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has called a snap election ahead of the Brexit negotiation. This video from The Wall Street Journal explains why:
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