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The National Front’s emphasis upon the fight against immigration has led some people to ask whether it should be seen as effectively a single-issue party.1 However, part of the Front’s novelty on the Far Right is that it presents a comprehensive set of policies covering almost every area of political concern. Nonetheless, these policies are often simplistic and incoherent. Some of the greatest inconsistencies appear, for example, in its economic programme. The Front is clearly much better at identifying problems and enunciating catchy slogans than it is at proposing effective and difficult remedies for France’s economic and social ills.
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See S. Mitra, ‘The National Front in France — A Single-Issue Movement?’, West European Politics, (11) April 1988, 47–64.
J.-M. Le Pen, L’Espoir (Paris: Albatros, 1989), p. 12.
J.-M. Le Pen, Les français d’abord (Paris: Editions Carrère, 1984), p. 12.
M. Winock, Nationalisme, antisémitisme et fascisme en France (Paris: Seuil, 1982), p. 45.
Quoted by Pierre-André Taguieff, in N. Mayer and P. Perrineau (eds), Le Front national à découvert (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1989), p. 197.
See the Rapport Milloz: Le coût de l’immigration (Paris: Editions Nationales, 1990), P. Milloz, Les étrangers et le chômage en France (Paris: Editions Nationales, 1991)
J.-Y. Le Gallou and P. Olivier, Immigration: Le Front national fait le point (Paris: Editions Nationales, 1992).
B. Mégret, ‘L’économie au service de la nation’, Identité, No. 17, Autumn 1992, 21.
B. Mégret, ‘L’économie au service de la nation’, Identité, No. 17, Autumn 1992, 20–21.
See G. Ignasse, ‘Le SIDA et la vie politique française’, Pouvoirs (58) 1991, 93–102.
See E. Plenel and A. Rollat, L’effet Le Pen (Paris: La Découverte/Le Monde, 1984), p. 231
Y. Blot, ‘Baroque et politique’, Identité, No.12, March/April/May 1991, 29. For a fuller discussion of this thesis, see Y. Blot, Baroque et politique: Le Pen est-il néo-baroque? (Paris: Editions Nationales, 1992).
J.-M. Le Pen, ‘Agirpour rester libre’, Identité, No.18, Spring 1993, 3.
For example, see Le Monde 30 June/1 July 1991. National Front cadres display a high degree of suspicion towards Jews. A survey of delegates at the Front’s 1990 Congress found that 88 per cent agreed with the proposition that ‘Jews have too much power in France’. Among the electorate as a whole the proportion agreeing with this statement was 21 per cent. See C. Ysmal, ‘Les cadres du Front national: les habits neufs de l’extrême droite’, in O. Duhamel and J. Jaffré (eds), SOFRES. L’état de l’opinion 1991 (Paris: Seuil, 1991), p. 193.
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Marcus, J. (1995). The National Front’s Programme and Ideology. In: The National Front and French Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24032-6_6
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