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27 May 2012
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Anne Laffeter
Anne Laffeter is a journalist, who writes for the magazine
Les Inrockuptibles
.
By Anne Laffeter
France
The far right with a human touch
After 38 years at the head of the head of France’s Front National, Jean-Marie Le Pen is hoping to pass on the party leadership to his daughter Marine. With an initiative that is in part a dynastic succession and partly a modernisation strategy similar to those deployed by far-right parties elsewhere in Europe, the FN is gearing up for presidential elections in 2012.
14 January 2011
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Les Inrockuptibles
Paris