In fact, I am always a bit surprised by the reactions provoked by these favorable results for the far-right. It’s as if a brown tidal wave has suddenly engulfed and sullied a pristine Republican Front, steadfast in its humanistic values.
However, it has been a long time since the barriers gave way, and many so-called Republican elected officials pave the way for the FN by adopting its racist and xenophobic theses with naïve duplicity.
I have the experience of my first electoral mandate from 1986 to 1992 in the PACA region. The president at the time was named Jean-Claude Gaudin, and he quietly governed with an RPR-UDF-FN majority. The presidencies of the commissions – from which the left was excluded – were allocated proportionally between the three majority parties. As a member of the Sports Commission, my president was an obscure National Front elected official from Vaucluse.
So I tell myself that, with this regional jurisprudence, the Brignoles elected official has no worries: he will be very well received by the UMP majority in the Var General Council.
This by-election is a non-event that once again demonstrates the porosity of the Republican Front. A porosity such that the strategy of the Rassemblement Bleu Marine will soon be successful.
I have long been convinced that Marine Le Pen will be our Gianfranco Fini, the leader of the MSI, the Italian neo-fascist party, who became for many years Deputy Prime Minister of a right-wing government.
Thanks to the Vichy-like spirit – in form and substance – of certain UMP leaders, Brignoles simply shows us that this conversion is likely to be quicker than expected.
