Chad Wentworth
March 24th, 2010, 07:30 AM
France’s Front National (FN) has increased its share of the vote in yesterday’s second round of regional elections to just over 17 percent, or just fewer than two million votes.
The controlled media has once again engaged in some devious fact-twisting, widely reporting that the FN polled 8.9 percent.
The FN only stood in 12 of the 22 mainland regions of France. The media-quoted figure is projected across all 22 regions and France’s overseas territories, and not averaged out to the ones that the FN actually contested.
In those regions, the FN polled particularly well, drawing a total of 1,942,523 votes, one of its largest polling figures yet. This delivered an astonishing 118 FN seats in the regional government assemblies.
The FN vote increased in every region it contested, with party leader Jean Marie Le Pen polling 387,481 votes, or 22.87 percent of the vote, in the Provence-Alpes-Cote-D’Azur region.
This was up from the 20.29 percent he polled in the first round, and gave the FN 21 seats in that assembly.
The increased vote totals were replicated in all of the other regions fought by the FN, with remarkable performances in the Nord-Pas-De-Calais region (up from 18.31 to 22.2 percent), Picardie (15.8 to 19.3 percent), Haute-Normandie (11.79 to 14.2 percent), Lorraine (14.87 to 18.44 percent) and Lanquedoc-Roussillon (12.67 to 19.38 percent).
The results have put the FN firmly back on the political map after the setback it suffered at the last general election.
The FN polled on an anti-Islamic colonisation platform during the latest elections, producing a poster showing an Algerian flag and minarets transposed over France.
The poster was ruled illegal in France after a court action but this anti-democratic move only helped the FN’s campaign.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/03/two-million-french-people-back-france%E2%80%99s-front-national/
The controlled media has once again engaged in some devious fact-twisting, widely reporting that the FN polled 8.9 percent.
The FN only stood in 12 of the 22 mainland regions of France. The media-quoted figure is projected across all 22 regions and France’s overseas territories, and not averaged out to the ones that the FN actually contested.
In those regions, the FN polled particularly well, drawing a total of 1,942,523 votes, one of its largest polling figures yet. This delivered an astonishing 118 FN seats in the regional government assemblies.
The FN vote increased in every region it contested, with party leader Jean Marie Le Pen polling 387,481 votes, or 22.87 percent of the vote, in the Provence-Alpes-Cote-D’Azur region.
This was up from the 20.29 percent he polled in the first round, and gave the FN 21 seats in that assembly.
The increased vote totals were replicated in all of the other regions fought by the FN, with remarkable performances in the Nord-Pas-De-Calais region (up from 18.31 to 22.2 percent), Picardie (15.8 to 19.3 percent), Haute-Normandie (11.79 to 14.2 percent), Lorraine (14.87 to 18.44 percent) and Lanquedoc-Roussillon (12.67 to 19.38 percent).
The results have put the FN firmly back on the political map after the setback it suffered at the last general election.
The FN polled on an anti-Islamic colonisation platform during the latest elections, producing a poster showing an Algerian flag and minarets transposed over France.
The poster was ruled illegal in France after a court action but this anti-democratic move only helped the FN’s campaign.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/03/two-million-french-people-back-france%E2%80%99s-front-national/