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Re: French Candidates by Michael Pugliese 24 April 2002 05:32 UTC |
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Two side notes. J.P. Chevemement was in the 70's the leader of a current in the SP which was considered, "left nationalist." Doug Ireland in In These Times, http://www.inthesetimes.com , April 15th issue, in reply to a letter to the editor said this, "Chevement's presidential candidacy, as distinct from the MDC (Citizen's Movement, M.P.) has been marked by a significant drift to the right on his part that has been widely commented on in the French press. He's also been allied with a host of figures including the monarchist, right-wing, anti-Semitic Catholics of the Action Francaise, former supporters of the immigrant-baiting, ex-conservative Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, refugees from the untra-conservative RPF, the right-wing Pierre Poujade and more. In Chevement's presidential coalition, which has a seperate structure, the MDC is only one, rather small component." Magret, was the candidate of the split from the National Front a few yrs. ago. Books at Duke University Press ... People, Policies, and Organization of the French National Front Published 1999 $19.95 Politics on the Fringe : The People, Policies, and Organization of the French National Front Edward G. DeClair 280 pages ( 1999) 26 tables, 2 figures ISBN 0-8223-2237-4 Cloth - $54.95 ISBN 0-8223-2139-4 Paperback - $19.95 Once a marginal political coalition, the French National Front has become the most high-profile far-right organization in Europe. In Politics on the Fringe Edward G. DeClair provides the first extensive analysis of the Front?s history, from its creation in 1972 and outcast status in the early 1980s to its achievement of broad-based support and show of political strength in the 1997 elections. Using rare, in-depth interviews with twenty-nine members of the Front elite, as well as public opinion survey data and electoral results, DeClair examines the internal structure of the Front, its political agenda, and its growing influence in France. 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It will also appeal to those concerned with right-wing populism and political movements. ?The specter of right-wing populism presents a major challenge to the party systems of western Europe. By taking an empirically-based, ideologically- neutral approach to a very emotional subject, Politics on the Fringe offers a deeper understanding of the National Front and a greater insight into its internal organizational behavior.??Vincent E. McHale, Case Western Reserve University ?Politics on the Fringe is simply the best book on the French National Front available in the English language. Intelligent, original, thoughtful, careful, and well-written, it is a marvelous mixture of primary and secondary research. Its insights into the minds and motives of the National Front and its supporters will undoubtedly serve as the foundation for our understanding of this important far right group for years to come.??Anthony Messina, Tufts University Edward G. DeClair is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Lynchburg College. 4/23/02 1:02:53 AM, Irene Heinstein <IreneTH@cal.berkeley.edu> wrote: > 4/23/02 4:57:32 PM, jeay <Anne-Marie.Jeay@univ-nancy2.fr> wrote: > >I made this picture of "our" political world for my students, you could be >interested to read something different of what is in newspapers? >Candidates are ranked from right wing to left wing >Informations are : >Name - Party - % - religion - origin or historical leader - main values >from their official leaflets - European politics > >EXCUSE ME IN A MAIL BODY IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO DRAW A TABLE > > Megret - 2,2% - no religious references - FN and Le Pen - xenophobia, >security, European Union no > > Le Pen - 16,86% - Catholic nationalism - in the tradition of older right >wing movements such as "Action Française" etc...., "different people in >different countries" that means territory linked to ethnicity, France to >the French, EU no > > Boutin- 1,2% - Catholic fundamentalism - UDF dissidence - anti abortion, > anti gay, anti differences , anti anything that looks different and for >helping the poor, the working people, the family and the fatherland, EU yes > > Madelin - 3.9 % - Catholic libéralism - "Droite Libérale" , right wing and >economic liberalism ( a kind of Bush ideology) - capital, business, global >economy, liberalism, anti welfare state, EU yes > > Bayrou - 6,9% - Social Catholicism - in the UDF - e.g. Giscard - camp. A >member of the classical make up of the French "legitimate" right- family, >morality, work, charity and security, little bit of ecology (Sustainable >Development), EU yes > > Saint Josse - 3,9% - Traditional Catholic - CPNT that means Hunting, > Fishing, Nature and Tradition, a movement based on hunters, fishermen, >nature fetishism and tradition, somewhat similar to a combination >NRA-Sierra Club- new as a political party - values to live in your own >village, welfare state and traditional behaviors, EU no > > Lepage - 1,7%- Brittany catholicism social and progressit- from RPR - >Agenda 21, EU yes [a social and left-leaning catholic take on RPR, Chirac's >party (sic)] > > Chirac - 19,88% - "Light" Catholicism and other religious "ideas" - >historical leader De >Gaulle - France, nation, global economy, security and power, EU yes > > Jospin - 16,18% - Protestant (all of his friends and goverment team) - PS >and F Mitterand - akin to Tony Blair , security, serious work etc? His >first words were : "my programm is not socialist, it is modern", his value >is an unexplained modernism, EU yes > > Chevénement - 5,4% - Protestant and Freemasons - "dissidents >du PS" - France, national sovereignity, Republic, security, defense, a bit >of ecology - UE no > > Mamère - 5,2% - Protestant and Freemasons- green party - against nuclear >energy, against cars and pollution, that is all their ecological programm, >EU yes > > Taubira - 2,32% - laics - Parti Radical - Mendes France - Laicity, >Republic, respect, equality > > Hue - 3,5% - PC Communist party - no comments evrybody knows their origins >and values unchanged still 1960, EU yes > > Laguiller - 5,72%- LO Lutte Ouvrière, soft trotkistes [Trotskyst]- this >party was settled >by Trotsky himself -workers, workers, workers, EU waffling > > Gluckstein - 0,47% - PT Parti des Travailleurs - populism as ideas, >elitism as leadership, a welfare state for workers, young and poors, anti >state, EU no comment > > Besancenot - 4,25% - LCR Ligue Communiste Révolutionaire , hard >Trotskyst, and Alain Krivine, seventies "gauchistes" - welfare state for >the young, retirement system, poors, and employment, against profit, EU no >comment. > > > > > > >"César demandait à rétablir la royauté ; les Romains s'effarouchent : mais >ils lui accordent, sous le nom d'empereur, le pouvoir suprême qu'ils lui >avaient refusé sous celui du roi." (Jean Paul Marat, Les chaînes de >l'esclavage, 1774, p 141) > > >
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