Project Le Pen

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🗓️ 11 April 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What accounts for Marine Le Pen's popularity? As a populist wave sweeps across the Western world, France is emerging as a key battleground and she is scoring record ratings for a leader of an 'outsider' party and looks set to get through to the second round of the presidential elections. How much is it to do with an increasingly familiar politics which blames global elites and immigrants for economic and social woes? And how much is it a distinctively French form, mixing policies of the left and the right in a brew which harks back to previous generations of Gallic leaders? What turns a party previously seen as fascist into one seriously vying for the highest office in the land? Anand Menon examines how Marine Le Pen has detoxified her father's party and asks what its success says about France's future as one of two anchoring states of the EU.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the BBC World Service. I'm Annan Menon and I'm in France a key
0:08.2	battleground as a populist wave challenges mainstream political and it will the public.
0:14.0	The wind of history has turned and it will carry us to the summit.
0:22.0	Declars Marion Le Pen, leader of the French
0:25.6	Front National to an enthusiastic flag-waving crowd as she launches her
0:30.4	presidential campaign in the city of Lyon.
0:33.0	We don't want to live on the Jug or the Menas of fundamentalism Islamists.
0:40.0	She blasts what she and her supporters see as the twin evils of Islamic fundamentalism and
0:46.8	globalization, and her speech is punctuated with applause, with cheers, with whistles, and
0:52.2	the party's trademark battle cry.
0:54.4	Ones she knew or this is our home.
1:01.0	Behind the noisy slogans is there a real determination to win power?
1:05.0	In this program I'm looking at Marine Le Pen's attempts to transform the party
1:10.0	founded by her father some 40 years ago. In France they talk of de diabolization
1:17.0	removing the devil. Detoxification is probably the closest equivalent in English. So let's look at this process of political
1:25.1	exorcism step by step. Step one, chucking out the old guard.
1:33.0	By the statue of Joan of Arne-Loupe.
1:40.0	By the statue of Joan of Arc in central Paris, Stans Jean-Marie Le Penh, surrounded by a group of die-hard
1:47.4	supporters. Now in his 89th year, he was the
1:55.0	expelled from the party he led for 39 years by his own daughter, Marin.
1:57.0	It was the first stage of the process of de-diabulization.
2:00.0	What then is the main difference between Lupen-Père and the daughter? I ask Gilbert Coler, one of the two
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