Right-Wing Makeover: The Spindoctor Behind the New Front National - "Philippot quotes Marine Le Pen: 'Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed.'"

Right-Wing Makeover: The Spindoctor Behind the New Front National



It is a cold, icy day in winter and Florian Philippot is strolling through the streets of Forbach, the town where he would like to be elected mayor. People hurry up to shake his hand, a store-owner hands him a cookie and the woman at a café next to the train station offers him a coffee. An old Tunisian man puts his arm around Philippot's shoulders.

Philippot is the candidate for Front National (FN), a party designated as "extreme right" in France, but he is received with open arms on his walk through Forbach. Nobody blocks his path, nobody insults him. Who, after all, should be afraid of this nice young man? . . .

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/success-of-front-national-in-france-partly-thanks-to-florian-philippot-a-952945.html