August 2011
Marine Le Pen has made exhaustive efforts to create a kinder, gentler National Front. But her father Jean-Marie Le Pen is determined to sabotage his daughter electoral campaign once more, with “no hard feelings” of course.
Marine has tried hard to normalize a party that is still viewed as too extreme for most of French voters; she has managed to put the fascist label to a minimum without compromising the fundamental party ideologies; It is being said that if Marine Le Pen keeps doing things the right way she will gain a lot of electoral ground against her competitors.
The problem is that she can´t prevent her father from blowing off her campaign, first Jean-Marie Le Pen said that the everybody exaggerated the nature of the Holocaust, then some pictures of him doing the “Hail Hitler” routine in front of a neo-Nazi flag were released to the media.
Then after the Norwegian terrorist attacks in Oslo, Jean-Marie Le Pen said in his radio broadcast that the naive left-leaning Norwegian government and the Norwegian population itself were more of a problem than the massacre itself which he referred to as “an accident”. Marine is now stuck between a rock and her father because the both the left wing and the right center parties are all over her for not denouncing her father´s word. Five days after this incident finally Marine Le Pen is defending her father’s words and letting the world know who the real leader of the French Front National really is.
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