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Originally Posted by SHiRO
Marine might not be anti semite, but her father certainly is and there's still an air of anti semitism around that party.
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No, the FN is Islamophobic, like your PVV, but not anti-semitic. Almost all the cadres have been changed. Le Pen father has lost all powers inside the party. In fact the FN has even become a rather gay (LGBT) party, which is quite odd. They did not take part in the mass rallies against gay marriage for instance, and several of their key cadres are gay. I remember the days when Le Pen father used to joke that in the Marais ("the Swamp", the gay district of Paris), "capon hunting" was open all year round...
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Originally Posted by SHiRO
Even most PVV sympathisers don't want cooperation with FN because of this.
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That's purely hypocritical, because they know the FN has a bad reputation outside of France, and don't want to be associated with them, even though they share the same ideas. It's the same in Belgium. The leaders of the N-VA don't want to be associated with the FN, even though to this day they defend rabid Flemish fascists and German collaborationists from WW2 who were far worse than the FN. There is such hypocrisy here!
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Still, FN has been a force in French politics far longer than all these new parties and is still going strong(er).
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The FN plays the same role today as the French Communist party between 1945-1985. It's the main outlet to vent one's anger, but they have no serious chance to come to power.
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UKIP and PVV have exactely zero change of coming into government.
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I wouldn't say that about UKIP. If there's a hung parliament at the next elections, the Conservatives will be tempted to form a coalition with UKIP.