France’s far-right National Front (FN) faces a ferocious campaign Tuesday to stop it taking two of France’s most important regions in elections starting this weekend.
As Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the party a “menace to the economy” and business leaders warn of the “ruin” it could cause, two of the main newspapers in the north launch an unprecedented campaign to stop its leader Marine Le Pen taking control of the region.
La Voix du Nord daily and its sister paper Nord Eclair run a second day of attacks on Le Pen and the party Tuesday, questioning their competence to rule the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region.
Articles headlined “Marine Le Pen and the Front are not who they say they are” and “Who are the members of the FN really?” cast doubt on the party’s ability to govern the depressed region, once a Socialist stronghold.
Le Pen, who looks set to win the region — France’s second biggest — in the two-round vote which ends on December 13, reacts with fury to the “scandalous” attacks.
She brands the four pages dedicated to the party she inherited from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, little more than “tracts” in support of the ruling Socialist party.
— AFP
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