With the death of the creator of the National Front, French politics loses a “monument” which was at the forefront of a political movement which is taking up more and more space almost everywhere in the West, according to Stéphan Bureau.
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The TVA Nouvelles contributor believes that the French politician had several similarities with the one who will return to the White House in a few days.
“If there was a Trump before Trump in the Western political landscape, we could say it was Jean-Marie Le Pen,” he said.
“One of the characteristics of the character, a bit like Mr. Trump, is a clear line of action,” he adds. He never apologized for what he did or what he said. He was convicted several times for his statements.”
The party he founded, the National Front, recently renamed the National Rally, had also distanced itself from him in recent years.
“It was his daughter who was forced to tell her father that he no longer had a place in the party in 2015 after he withdrew in 2011,” he says. She will choose three years later to change the name.
The world will remember him as a person who contributed greatly to French, and even Western, political life, according to Stéphan Bureau
-“A little everywhere at the moment, what are we seeing emerging? In Austria for 24 hours, in Italy for a year, in Canada, who knows, but with very different variants, it is the emergence of an uninhibited right which, in matters of immigration, has forced a change of direction. speech,” he mentions.
“Jean-Marie Le Pen is one of the youngest deputies elected in the history of the Fourth Republic,” he adds. We go back to 1956. He is a candidate in the presidential elections three times, who, for the first time, scared politically traditional France in 2002 when he found himself in the second round against Jacques Chirac.
His daughter, Marine Le Pen, also found herself in the second round of the presidential election last summer.
“We must see that over time, the torch, which is also the symbol of the party, was taken up by his daughter, and in the last elections, she won more than 40% in the second round against Emmanuel Macron,” he says.
The date of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s death, January 7, 10 years to the day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, has something symbolic, according to Mr. Bureau.
“One of the theses most often repeated by Father Le Pen was this danger of the Islamization of French society,” he said. And he died on January 7, 10 years after the attacks.”
See Stéphan Bureau’s full comment in the video above
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