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Manuel Valls has reason to sound the alarm against the FN

By Matthew Croissandeau

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Posted on 12-03-2015 at 10:44

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The National Front does not fight is only with words or slogans. There must be reason in the criticism and show all that his program unreasonable.

Manuel Valls to the National Assembly on February 17, 2015. (PATRICK KOVARIC / AFP)

We can blame many things to Manuel Valls, the substance of his policy as in form. We can challenge his social-liberal line, discuss its broad economic guidelines, deplored the lack of results.We can mock his taste for communication, its formulas to the punch or bulldozer methods. It is unclear however how one could criticize the general mobilization that has just decreed against the National Front.

Fifteen days departmental elections, Prime Minister wet shirt to campaign and this is normal.It alerts and alarm, confesses his "fear" to see his country shatter if Marine Le Pen's party prevailed .And now rises in the ranks of the right, but also a part of the left, a little music would have us believe that all this is for nothing but to raise ... the National Front. As if this was not already the case.As if the party was not Le Pen won in 71 departments in the European elections last year.

The bites of Valls arrived very late, say some. So what? Could this be a reason to say nothing, do nothing and give up? They would mask ulterior motives politicians, argue others. Big deal! As if they had not. They translate finally pursue the despisers, a form of blackmail on the familiar air of helpful vote and moral posture. Remind all those who have forgotten that the useful vote this useful it actually allows the National Front does not win.And morality in politics is not a dirty word, but a respectable ambition.

To those who doubt, Le Pen party has not changed

Manuel Valls has reason to sound the alarm. Because after March 22, it will be too late. Let's here, the FN is not fighting only with words or slogans.There must be reason in the criticism and show all that his program unreasonable. It is especially effective policy to prevent it from proliferating on the crisis and fear.

But we must also sometimes name the evil. And that's not demonize or stigmatize as to emphasize that the party hosts genuine racists, homophobes licensed, nostalgic extreme right end of the darkest hours of our history. To those who doubt, as those who believe that Le Pen party changed or that this is a trial of another age, we can not recommend reading anthology of quotes disaster that we identified in the departmental candidates. Their words, their obsessions, their injuries are still the same. We never do too much against the National Front .

Matthew Croissandeau