{"id":295438,"date":"2017-02-18T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/french-neo-fascists-present-anti-eu-anti-immigrant-program-in-2017-elections\/"},"modified":"2017-02-18T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T08:26:00","slug":"french-neo-fascists-present-anti-eu-anti-immigrant-program-in-2017-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/french-neo-fascists-present-anti-eu-anti-immigrant-program-in-2017-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"French neo-fascists present anti-EU, anti-immigrant program in 2017 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>French neo-fascists present anti-EU, anti-immigrant program in 2017 elections<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alice Lauren\u00e7on<br \/>\n    <br \/>18 February 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>After her campaign launch in Lyon, the neo-fascist National Front\u2019s (FN) presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, released her 144-point election program. It proposes a raft of vicious anti-immigrant and particularly anti-Muslim measures, law-and-order policies, and military escalation, as well as attacking the NATO military alliance and the European Union (EU) from the right.<\/p>\n<p>The hostility towards these policies in a majority of the French population notwithstanding, Le Pen still has a strong chance of winning the April-May presidential elections. According to an Ipsos poll published on Thursday, she would win the first round of the election with 25 to 26 percent of the vote, ahead of PS-linked independent candidate Emmanuel Macron, with 20 to 23 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>This reflects the bankruptcy and unpopularity of the Socialist Party (PS) of President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, who is in the final months of a presidency dominated by austerity, war and its imposition of a state of emergency in France. The PS is divided over the winner of the PS presidential primary, Beno\u00eet Hamon, with much of the party backing Macron, a former investment banker.<\/p>\n<p>The right-wing Les R\u00e9publicains (LR) is also in the throes of a deep crisis, after allegations that its candidate, Fran\u00e7ois Fillon, paid nearly \u20ac1 million of public funds to his wife for a fictitious job as his parliamentary attach\u00e9. Le Pen is seeking to benefit from the collapse of bourgeois democracy in France and growing popular disgust with the political establishment in France and across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Macron, the former economy minister in Hollande\u2019s government, has also benefited from the crisis in these two&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/02\/18\/fnlp-f18.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 French neo-fascists present anti-EU, anti-immigrant program in 2017 elections By Alice Lauren\u00e7on 18 February 2017 After her campaign launch in Lyon, the neo-fascist National Front\u2019s (FN) presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, released her 144-point election program. It proposes a raft of vicious anti-immigrant and particularly anti-Muslim measures, law-and-order policies, and military escalation, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}