Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Dick Young’s Safe America
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • Critical Race Theory
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money

French Nationalism Loses Steam

June 13, 2017 By Richard C. Young

Record low turnout in French parliamentary first round elections hurt the performance of Marine Le Pen’s Front National last Sunday. Le Pen and her party were hoping to secure at least 15 seats in parliament, but Front National appears on track to win only between 1 and 10 seats. The party is saying it will be the only opposition in parliament after Emmanuel Macron’s new party, Republic on the Move, has attracted politicians from many of the other major parties. Gina Doggett and Zoe Leroy report for the AFP:

Le Pen blamed what she called a skewed electoral system that encouraged a record low turnout after projections showed that FN candidates scored between 13 and 14 percent of the vote.

She pointed to the fact that only around 49 percent of the electorate cast a ballot on Sunday — the lowest level in a parliamentary election in France for six decades.

“This catastrophic abstention rate should raise the question of the voting rules which keep millions of our compatriots away from the polling stations,” the 48-year-old said.

FN vice president Florian Philippot said the party had “maybe been disappointed by the score and we have paid the price, I think, for a low turnout.”

The lion’s share of the vote, as expected, went to the new centrist party of 39-year-old President Emmanuel Macron, Republique en Marche (Republic on the Move, REM), which could win as many as 445 seats.

The FN had set the 15-seat goal in order to qualify as a parliamentary group, a status that gives a party more clout in the National Assembly with seats on committees and a role in setting the agenda.

– ‘We are real opposition’ –

The FN leader is currently a lawmaker in the European Parliament but is hoping to win a legislative seat in France for the first time.

She at least made it easily into the run-off in the northern town of Henin-Beaumont against 12 rivals and will fight a political novice from Macron’s party, Anne Roquet.

Lise Trolin, a 32-year-old saleswoman who was among around 200 FN party stalwarts who gathered to watch the results in the depressed former mining town, tried to put a brave face on the national result.

“It’s not a failure,” she told AFP. “We will be the only opposition force in the assembly because the Macron government is a melting pot of all the other parties. We will be the only force with enough guts to challenge Macron.”

Read more here.

France Legislative Elections: “This is crunch time for Marine Le Pen”

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Party Switching Opportunist Loses Primary - Again
  • Hillary Loses It
  • With my French Teacher In Paris
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • Harvard Professor Calls Homeschooling a “Threat to Society” - May 24, 2022
  • Why Does Joe Biden Put Americans Last? - May 24, 2022
  • The Supreme Court Must Always Protect the Constitution - May 23, 2022

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Does Big Government Create Poverty?
  • Why Black Lives Matter Needs to Be Shut Down
  • “An Epic Struggle Over the Definition of America”
  • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • A NEW CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: Rick Scott Finally Gives the GOP Something to Run On
  • California’s Progressive Liberals Have Created a Monster
  • YOU DESERVE FREEDOM: Your Hard Work Will Make It Happen
  • How Can You Maximize Natural Immunity to Viruses?
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • America’s States Rights Revolution

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Jean-Pierre: Economy "Not Something that We Keep an Eye on Every Day"
  • Consequences of Biden Killing the Keystone Pipeline
  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • Harvard Professor Calls Homeschooling a "Threat to Society"
  • PRIMARIES: Trump Endorsed Candidates’ HUGE Night
  • Are You Suffering from One of These Nutrient Deficiencies?
  • PARTY'S OVER JOE: Republicans Crush Democrats in Local Elections
  • Our Daily Bread Threatened?
  • BUY THE DIPS? Can You Catch a Ginsu Knife?
  • What Would We Do without the Experts?

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Nowadays, Everyone Is Getting Some Dividend Religion
  • How Can the Fed Prevent Stagflation?
  • How to Avoid the Restrictions of a Target Date Fund
  • Now You Can Own Your Vacation and It Doesn’t Have to Be a Time Share
  • Watch Out for Your Worst Enemy
  • Big Banks Adopting Blockchain for Short-Term Trading
  • Job Market Survival Advice for Graduates and for Those YOU Love
  • BULLWHIPPED? Inventory Overhang Could Slow Growth in Certain Sectors
  • BUY THE DIPS? Can You Catch a Ginsu Knife?
  • MARKET TURNING: Canada’s Housing Market Turmoil

President Joe Biden’s Good Question

Georgia Proves All Politics Are Local

VIDEO: DeSantis: America “Cannot Have a Ministry of Truth”

Can America Cut It’s Spending in Half? YES! It’s Been Done Before

Joe Biden Stands for Shootings, Pension Wipeouts, and Millions of Illegals

Harvard Professor Calls Homeschooling a “Threat to Society”

Copyright © 2022 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives