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Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)
52. What next for Europe? imho:
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 01:27 PM
Nov 2012

Be aware of the potential power of the rising tide of voices representing or claiming to represent the various 'nationalist' 'European/Christianist/White Supremecist/Far Right' social/political movements (yeah, look at what's happening in Greece for example), especially in France, under the leadership of experienced committed no-holds-barred political operators such as, for those who can read Spanish, some people have suggested, this recently-empowered character:

La Unión por un Movimiento Popular (UMP), el partido fundado por Jacques Chirac y Alain Juppé en 2002 para modernizar la reumática y biempensante ideología del gaullismo social, tiene desde anoche un jefe de filas “sin pelos en la lengua”, que no duda en lanzar proclamas populistas y cargas de profundidad xenófoba contra los musulmanes para enardecer a las asustadas bases populares en los mítines. Jean-François Copé, un hombre de baja estatura pero de una seguridad en sí mismo que asusta, se ha definido como el paladín de una “derecha sin complejos”, y con un discurso básico y esquemático en el que no caben matices se ha encaramado a la cúpula de la UMP para un interregno de tres años tras unas elecciones llenas de irregularidades batiendo en la línea de meta a su oponente, el liberal y apocado François Fillon, por solo 98 votos.

Copé, al que algunos medios franceses llaman “el pequeño Sarkozy”, ha imitado de punta a cabo la campaña feroz que el ya expresidente del partido y de la República protagonizó en mayo pasado, y se diría que incluso la ha superado al acusar a los niños musulmanes de robar los bollos de chocolate a los otros niños durante el Ramadán, acuñar la expresión “racismo antiblancos” y cargar contra los extranjeros y los homosexuales como si fueran el demonio...

... Bajo su coraza campechana, Jean-François Copé esconde un alma de intelectual en acción. Ya ha publicado media docena de libros, y el último, Manifiesto para una derecha sin complejos, es el que le ha dado más notoriedad. Ahí se describe como rompedor de tabús, lanza la fórmula racismo antiblancos, tiene la ocurrencia de los “pains au chocolate” y empieza a arrasar en los mítines por los pueblos de Francia. Cuando nadie daba un euro por su victoria ante Fillon, unas elecciones muy turbias, un escrutinio que pareció un vodevil, mil sospechas de fraude y 98 votos de diferencia sancionados por un comité electoral controlado por el jefe del aparato han decretado que Copé lidere la derecha gala hasta 2015. Viendo cómo se las gasta el personaje, no sería extraño que esto sea solo el principio...

/... http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2012/11/20/actualidad/1353413097_562308.html


Or, in English eg:

... Copé has no interest in centrism; he’ll try to steer the UMP toward the far-right voters who supported the ultra-nationalist National Front party in record numbers this May.

Copé made this clear when he published a controversial book, “Manifesto for an Uninhibited Right,” last month. In it, he argues that racism against white citizens has become a serious problem that most people are afraid to discuss.

“I know I’m breaking a taboo by using the term anti-white racism, but I do so intentionally, because it’s the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma,” he wrote.

When Copé claimed victory on Sunday before official results had been released, Fillon, who had been predicted to win, fired back a refusal to concede via television announcement. The vitriol between the two candidates and their supporters has reached new levels; it looked like a party implosion of the sort predicted by analysts when President Francois Hollande and his Socialists swept elections earlier this year...

/... http://www.ibtimes.com/frances-ump-party-leans-right-elects-jean-francois-cope-new-leader-890836


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