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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Sat May 12, 2012, 10:50 AM May 2012

And from Pravda: "Fascists launch the offensive against European Union"

At the last presidential elections in France and Greece neo-Nazi right-wing parties showed impressive parliamentary results. Europeans remember the events that occurred 80 years ago, when in the wake of the economic crisis Hitler came to power in Germany, and wonder how the neo-Nazism were able to return to the tolerant Europe.

Within several years, radical right-wing parties have made a stunning leap forward, and they can no longer be ignored in France, Finland, Hungary, Austria, and now in Greece, where at Sunday's parliamentary elections the Nazi party "Golden Dawn" obtained seven percent of the vote, and will form its own parliamentary group with 20 seats.

As for the impressive success of the extreme right "National Front" in France, its leader Marine Le Pen (18 percent in the first round of the presidential elections) believes that the elected president Francois Hollande will quickly disappoint France with his policy that will not be much different from the policy of Sarkozy, and called for a "real opposition that would not be a reflection or copy of the current authorities."

The Europeans are hoping that the Nazis will never help each other because of the prevalence of the national idea. They are wrong or are simply comforting their citizens. In October of 2009 "Jobbik" party initiated the creation of the Alliance of European national movements - the union of the right-wing parties, including the French National Front and British National Party.

http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/12-05-2012/121093-fascists_european_union-0/

The victory of the Socialists in France is good news. Le Pen hopes to replace Sarkozy's party as the right-wing opposition to position itself for the next presidential election. The tide may be turning back to the left, if France is any indication, but the far-right will not be giving up any time soon.

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