> I would like to know how accurate Romain's account is. How much were his > voters reacting against immigration and crime vs. Maastricht and > capitalist Globalization? > > > Michael Perelman
The question of immigration has not been an important matter in political discourses, even Le Pen's, for years. But for thirty years, popular voters keep giving the same message in vain. When government is hold by rightists (the seventies), they vote for the left. When government is hold by the left, for doing the same "Europen" and "Globalizing" policy (the eighties), they vote for the right. But neither the right nor the left listen to this message. And hand in hand, both oligarchies continue their sapping of salaries, of employment, of social laws, of independance, of hope. Sunday, for the first time, popular voters swang over to a man who spoke (electioneeringly) against Bruxelles, against Maastricht, against oligarchies, and spoke of the real fears, fears of future. As for the security discourse, it was not mainly of Le Pen, but of Chirac and Jospin, first! It is in the traditional communist places (Seine St Denis, Pas de Calais, Loraine, etc.) that Le Pen got the higher scores, not in the richest places where are traditionnally living the rightists and the fascists. And this is the responsibility of the French communist party. There is a globalizing economic crisis with huge social and intellectual consequences! And as long as leftits will continue denying it, popular voters will continue sliding towards populism, as between the two World Wars. RK
