French far-right party RF's rapid rise in racism, similar to Lee Jae-myung's 'party member sovereignty'
French far-right party Le Pen (RF) is causing a sensation in the European Parliament elections and is imminent to take over the next government, and the weight of policies such as 'war on crime' and 'tax cuts' are increasing in the background of rapid growth, 'racial discrimination'.
Le Pen, leader of the party, received less than 18% of the vote when presidential candidate Chirac was overwhelmingly elected in 2002, but in an Ipsos Reid-Sopra Steria opinion poll released on November 10 last year, she ranked first among French respondents. 44% responded that the National Coalition could take power.
Le Pen’s ‘innate supremacy racism’ shows similarities with Representative Lee Jae-myeong’s ‘party member sovereignty’, from ‘nation rule’ to ‘innate party member sovereignty dominates people’s sovereignty.’
In his congratulatory speech at the national convention of the SS, the Innovation Council, Representative Lee said on the 2nd that “it is the collective intelligence of the people and party members,” and that “party members directly participate in party decisions” and “acceleration of the era of party member sovereignty.”
National Rally (RN) leader Jordan Bardella faced off against two political foes, including Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, in a contested debate to become the next prime minister on the 25th, offering a bleak outlook for the state of the country and criticizing illegal immigration and crime. Focused on rising costs.
The New York Times, which reported the debate, said, “This was unimaginable just 10 years ago,” and “For decades, the National Coalition has been the bane of French politics, a dangerous entity to the point where politicians from other parties refuse to even interact with its members.” “It was considered,” he said.
The party's founding chair, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is an overt racist, saying races "do not have the same capabilities or the same level of historical evolution", and has made overt anti-Semitic remarks and called for the Holocaust. He has been found guilty several times of public downsizing.
He called the Nazi gas chamber massacre of Jews “a detail of history.”
This party, originally named National Front, was founded in 1972 as a New Order political organization with the credo that ‘democracy is doomed to failure’.
Initially, the party's members were a concentration of extreme right-wingers, including former Nazi soldiers, collaborators with the Vichy regime, and former members of terrorist organizations that carried out attacks to prevent Algeria's independence from French colonial rule.
The party platform formalized the ‘fight against communism’ by restoring conservative family values and anti-communism, and a fierce anti-immigration movement was later added.
The typically openly racist party overwhelmed President Emmanuel Macron's party in last week's European Parliament elections, recording a third of the vote in France, and on the 23rd, President Macron declared the next parliamentary election, showing a strong position as the next candidate. He foretold the takeover of the government.
For decades, other parties have formed a 'Republican Front', appealing to members to strategically vote against the R.N., and when Le Pen advanced to the second round of the presidential election in 2002, left-wing parties urged members to vote against his conservative opponent. An organized opposition movement urged people to vote for Jacques Chirac, and Chirac was overwhelmingly elected, while Le Pen received less than 18%.
Le Pen's strategy has undergone major revisions in recent years, weakening the opposition movement and partly altering the party's image as she gains more and more supporters.
The founder's daughter, Marine Le Pen, has tried to attract mainstream voters and, when she took power in 2011, sought to escape "demonization" by distancing herself from the anti-Semitic comments made by her founder father and calling Jewish concentration camps "the height of barbarism." “He declared.
She has attempted to clean house within the party by ousting her father in 2015, but continues to be the target of criticism from some party members for racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic comments.
Under Le Pen, the party's hard-line stance on immigration and crime has become increasingly mainstream in its ideology, and last year's immigration bill in parliament led the Constitutional Court to block many anti-immigration policies.
“The scope of scapegoats has now been reduced to Muslims and immigrants,” said Professor Cecil Alduy of Stanford University, an expert on the party. “That is the DNA of this party: society and individuals as free agents who enter into social contracts with others in a democratic society.” "It's not about looking at things as such, it's about looking at them through the lens of their origins, that is, what's in their blood," he told the NYT.
“The French Constitution states that you can be French if you agree with and abide by the laws and legacy of the Enlightenment, including freedom of speech and citizenship for all,” said Jean-Yves Camus, director of the Radical Politics Observatory at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation. “Being French is not a nation, but a value,” he told the NYT.
Gilles Ivaldi, a political science professor at Paris Sciences Po University, said, “The roots of this party are economic libertarians, which called for large-scale privatization, a reduction in the number of civil servants, and a reduction in income tax.” He added, “Most of the early supporters were laborers. Recognizing that it came from a class background, the party began to change by proposing many measures typically associated with the left, such as expanding public services,” he told the NYT about the sharp turn of left-wing ideology to the extreme right.
Jordan Bardella, leader of Le Pen's party, said in a debate on the 25th that "there was not a single French person watching us tonight who was not afraid for their safety in public places," and said the party's core talking point linking violence to immigration. I mentioned it again.
Representative Bardella said that if he becomes the next prime minister, drastically reducing immigration will be one of his top priorities, strengthening security to fight crime and lowering taxes on all types of energy, including gas, electricity and natural gas. Talked about starting and changing the tax cut policy.
He pledged to cut off undocumented people from free treatment except in emergencies, and outlined the far-right party's goal of giving preferential treatment to French citizens over foreigners, even those who have lived in France for years.
He also confirmed his anti-immigration policy by formalizing the elimination of the citizenship policy under which children born in France to foreigners automatically acquire French citizenship when they turn 18.
Representative Bardella pledged to prevent people convicted of crimes from accessing public housing and to ‘cut state subsidies’ for the families of youth caught as recidivists.
Prior to the discussion, Representative Bardella converted the ‘policy to ban Muslim headscarves in public places’, which had become politically controversial, into a ‘long-term goal’ and removed it from the list of short-term policies.
Ahead of the election, he suddenly dropped the priority of Le Pen's party, which had been the privatization of media outlets criticized for being biased in publicly funded media outlets.
On the 13th, following a debate on French TV, the European Union (EU) began talks on NATO membership for Ukraine and Moldova in response to the Russian military's occupation of the Crimea peninsula.
Le Pen's policy is to treat the French as a people, to politically define a clear dividing line between natives and nonindigenous peoples, and to ensure that only French citizens have priority over non-French residents in areas such as social benefits, subsidized housing, and hospital treatment. This is a representative far-right ideology.