Far Right

Question 1

Which movement inspire the far right today?

Answer 1

Poujadisme

Question 2

What is it?

Answer 2

Defence of the common man against the elites, rural areas, owners of small businesses, equitable tax system

Question 3

What year was the FN founded? Who immediately became its president?

Answer 3

1972, Jean-Marie Le Pen

Question 4

How does the FN transcend the R/L divide?

Answer 4

It’s the third force, an alternative for those who don’t want to vote for liberalism or socialism

Question 5

When does the FN have its first electoral success?

Answer 5

1983, 2 seats in Paris and Dreux (Normandy)

Question 6

What percentage of the vote does the FN win in the legislative elections of 1986? How many seats did they win?

Answer 6

10% of the vote, 35 MPs

Question 7

In which year was PR trialled? Why was it cancelled straight after?

Answer 7

1986, cancelled after because the FN get so many MPs

Question 8

What percentage of the vote does the FN win in the presidential elections in 1988?

Answer 8

15%

Question 9

What percentage of the overall vote in 1995 presidential election is made up of the working class?

Answer 9

30% of the working class

Question 10

What percentage of the vote does the FN win in the presidential elections in 1995?

Answer 10

15%

Question 11

When did triangulaires happen? What is it?

Answer 11

1997, 3 candidates get to the second round (FN, Right and Socialists)

Question 12

Why was 2002 a shocking election?

Answer 12

FN gets through to the second round of the presidential election with 16.86% after Chirac

Question 13

In the second round of the 2002 presidential election, what is the overall outcome?

Answer 13

81% Chirac vs 19% Jean

Question 14

In what year does Sarkozy win the presidential election?

Answer 14

2007

Question 15

How many presidential terms of office does Chirac have?

Answer 15

2: 1995 and 2002

Question 16

What year does Marine take over the party?

Answer 16

2011

Question 17

What percentage of the vote does the FN win in the presidential elections in 2017?

Answer 17

21.3% of vote, gets to second round, but doesn’t win

Question 18

How many MPs does the FN win in 2017?

Answer 18

8

Question 19

What areas of France vote FN?

Answer 19

Industrial areas - Nord pas de Calais deindustrialisation and delocalisation
North - Immigration in the area
South - Marseille, Nice, Mediterranean, link to Algerian pieds-noirs
Rural areas- Lack of public services
Those who don’t like other parties (protest vote)
Those who own small businesses

Question 20

Give 5 examples of her main policies

Answer 20

1. Immigration - drastically reduce it, not ban it
2. Family - parental income for families with kids, lower retirement ages for lots of kids, anti gay marriage and adoption, pro PACS
3. Europe - leave Euro zone, get the Franc back, have more control over money, victim, debt (Greece)
4. Public services - improve them in rural areas, improved arms for the police/gendarmerie
5. French priority (not preference) - Favouring French businesses, buy French, local production, against delocalisation, taxing big businesses and wealthy people