See the Power of the Media!

After the first round of the current presidential elections in France Marine Le Pen is to be congratulated on securing her place as one of the candidates to go through to the second round, and her success in this respect will no doubt be cause for much jubilation and speculation by both the chattering classes and also the majority of European nationalists around the world.

In the first round, Marine Le Pen has secured the support of 21.53% of the popular vote, a higher percentage than either she or her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen has secured in presidential elections in the past. Marine has also secured the support of 7,658,990 electors, a larger number than ever before and a clear indication that support for her and the Front National is indeed growing amongst the French public.

What for me is most instructive following this first round of voting however, in which candidates from the main establishment parties have been defeated, is the sudden rise of Emmanuel Macron, who also beat all of the main establishment candidates and pushed Marine Le Pen into second place, securing 23.75% of the popular vote.

The Front National was formed in 1972 by Marine’s father and this weekend’s achievements by Marine are the culmination of a campaign that has been waged for forty-five years.

In the first presidential elections contested by Jean-Marie Le Pen back in 1974, two years after his party was formed, he secured just 190,921 votes, just 0.8% of the popular vote. It took Jean-Marie thirty years before he became a serious contender, securing 16.9% of the vote in 2002, before internal divisions within the Front National and other factors caused the level of popular support for him to decline.

The fruits of that forty-five year-long campaign are considerable by British nationalist standards:

In the 2012 legislative election, the National Front won two seats; Gilbert Collard and Marion Maréchal-Le Pen;

In the municipal elections held on 23rd and 30th March 2014, lists officially supported by National Front won mayoralties in 12 cities: Beaucaire, Cogolin, Fréjus, Hayange, Hénin-Beaumont, Le Luc, Le Pontet, Mantes-la-Ville, Marseille 7th sector, Villers-Cotterêts, Béziers and Camaret-sur-Aigues;

Following the municipal elections, the National Front has, 1,546 and 459 councillors at two different levels of local government.

Despite this impressive foundation of support across France however, Marine has been beaten into second place after the first round of the current presidential elections by a man who has never held elected political office and who represents a party, En Marche!, that was formed just a year ago, that has so far not contested any elections and which has no elected representatives at all!

Furthermore, Emmanuel Macron does not represent a radical new strand of political thought, he and his party are a variously described as a liberal/left or social democratic, but he appears to be a man who has arrived at just the right time; at the very moment that all of Marine Le Pen’s established centre-right and centre-left candidates have been compromised in one way or another. It is a saying, that cometh the hour, cometh the man, but Macron has been positively catapulted from nowhere into the political spotlight and has become almost overnight the saviour of the French political establishment.

Courtesy of the media, Macron has in twelve months come from literally nowhere to become the front-runner in the French presidential elections, commanding 23.75% of the popular vote!

Macron is a French ‘Tony Blair’; a relatively young and handsome man, who is well educated, has the right background, who is a good actor and good orator, and who can be substituted by the French political establishment as the candidate of choice the moment a fresh new ersatz candidate is required to represent their interests and frustrate the ambitions of the Front National.

“A-ha!” say the French media moguls, “you, the French public have finally seen through the lies and corruption of the old parties and are about to elect Marine Le Pen, … but wait, can we interest you in our latest shiny, new and exciting ‘clean skin’, Emmanuel Macron? … He’s so suave, so vibrant and progressive and he’s so new!”

Emmanuel Macron obtained a master’s degree in public affairs at Sciences Po, before training for a senior civil service career at the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA), graduating in 2004.

Between 2004 and 2008, he worked as an Inspector of Finances in the French Ministry of Economy, before leaving to work as an investment banker at a highly-paid position at Rothschild & Cie Banque.

The sudden rise of Emmanuel Macron is testament to the beguiling power of the mass media and to the gullibility of the French public, who are showing every sign of allowing the media to distract them once again with a product of such obvious, vacuous, bombast.

To all those who have held up Marine Le Pen and the Front National as an example of nationalism succeeding at the ballot box, prepare yourselves to be disappointed once again. Nothing would please me more than to see Marine returned as President of France, but realistically, despite all that she has achieved, and all of the brokering that has been done with ethnic minority vested interest groups, the greatest likelihood is that first-round support will now be switched from the old establishment parties and from the defeated parties of the left, to Emmanuel Macron. There will be a concerted effort throughout the media to ‘Stop Le Pen’, and I fear that just as we have seen in the past, such a campaign will succeed.

My belief is that not until we nationalists have built a media capability such that we can rival the establishment, will we be able to achieve the electoral breakthrough that we all hope for.

By Max Musson © 2017

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