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In reply to the discussion: Marine Le Pen scores stunning result in French presidential election [View all]tsuki
(11,994 posts)young vote because of high unemployment. But she is naming names and pointing fingers, something no other politician is, other than a few weaseling words of non-consequence.
"In a speech that played to populist fears about immigration, unemployment and the power of financial markets, Le Pen painted Goldman Sachs as an all-powerful institution that controlled entire nations as well as the European Central Bank.
"Goldman Sachs topples governments everywhere," she told supporters in Lyon, southeast France.
"Goldman Sachs places its men at the top of euro zone countries. Goldman Sachs puts its man at the head of the European Central Bank," she went on. "In Greece, Italy, the ECB, oligarchs have taken power."
The ECB's current head, Mario Draghi, was a former Goldman Sachs executive before heading the Bank of Italy, while technocrat governments have taken over in Athens and Rome amid the debt crisis.""
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/07/us-lepen-goldmansachs-idUSBRE83609M20120407
Who will Le Pen voters throw their votes to? Good question.