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Le Pen celebrates the advancement of her ideas despite the electoral defeat against Macron


Above 40%, but defeated for the third time. The far-right Marine Le Pen has failed again in her attempt to catapult herself politically to the Elysée, according to the very accurate preliminary results of the second round of the French presidential elections. The predictions were fulfilled and the leader of the National Rally (RN) will get -with 85% of the votes counted- around 44%, a slightly higher support than the latest polls predicted (43%) after the winner Emmanuel Macron widened his lead thanks to the democratic cordon formed by left-wing voters in fear of an ultra triumph. Le Pen fails again in the conquest of power, but achieves the best result in history of the extreme right in France.

“Millions of our compatriots chose the national and exchange side“, the ultranationalist and xenophobic candidate congratulated herself a few minutes after the announcement of the Ipsos institute’s estimate based on the preliminary count. “It is a brilliant victory“, he highlighted in front of his supporters gathered in the chic pavilion of Armenoville, in the 16th district of Paris, one of the richest in the capital. Although it represents his third failed attempt to reach the presidency, it is one of the greatest supports obtained by the extreme right in a Western European country, a warning for the future of French politics.

“To the top”

In 2012, Le Pen had been third with 18% in the first round, while she lost in the 2017 final with 33%. This time she has exceeded the 40% threshold, achieving support similar to that of the losing candidate from a traditional formation (from the Socialist Party or the Republican right) in the history of the Fifth Republic. Lepenismo is on its way to becoming a game like any other, if you haven’t already. When you think of the overwhelming victory of Jacques Chirac (82%) before Jean-Marie LePen (18%) in the second round of 2002, it seems that this happened in the Pleistocene.

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“Despite two weeks of disloyal, brutal and violent methods, our ideas have reached the topLe Pen defended. Having quietly advanced through the first-round campaign, thanks to the Islamophobic polemicist’s lightning rod Eric Zemmourafter April 10, the RN program aroused more criticism and fear – for example, due to its proposal to ban the Islamic headscarf in the street – and the French democracy’s antibodies to xenophobia resisted.

“They have buried us a thousand times in history and a thousand times all those who predicted our disappearance were wrong. I can only feel a kind of hope,” said the leader of the RN, who preferred to see the glass half full. Although this Sunday the electoral rise of the extreme right was confirmed, its reputation as eternal loser. The pupae of French politics unable to win an election, especially because of a double-round electoral system that favors the lesser evil. Le Pen failed in her attempt to channel the rejection against Macron and his policies, especially intense in the modest categories, in an election in which the abstention highest (28%) in a second round since 1969.

Le Pen, to the legislative

“Despite the defeat, we have almost increased by 10% our result, our ideas had never weighed so much in the country before,” Mélanie Fortier, 24, RN representative in the regional council of Burgundy Franche-Comté (central-eastern France), boasted in statements to EL PERIÓDICO, who like other militants and elected officials received the result with resignation and false optimism.All of them were dressed like brushes and with a pose at the antipodes of a formation that claims “the first party of the people”.

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After failing three times in a presidential election, should Le Pen give way to a new leadership on the extreme right? “Not at all! She is very young, she is only 53 years old. I hope that she will present herself again in 2027 (the date on which the next race to the Elysée is planned),” replied the ultra militant Jean-Jacques Lejemblé, 67 years old. This upscale restaurant owner boasted that RN “has managed to break his glass roof”.

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“I think she will be a candidate in the Parliamentary election in his constituency in the North, but I cannot speak on his behalf,” said Jordan Bardella MEP, interim president of the RN, about the possibility of Le Pen running in the June elections.

The polemicist Zemmour, who is also planning to run in the legislative elections in the constituency of the French who live in Israel (he got more than 50% of the votes there in the first round), asked an alliance between his Reconquista party and RN. In 2017, depressed by the defeat of Le Pen, and the catastrophic television debate of its leader, Lepenism only got 7 deputies in the National Assembly (577 deputies). Now will it fail again? Or will it achieve a greater parliamentary presence? The electoral cycle is not over in France.


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