• Le Pen wants France's National Front to be renamed 'National Rally'
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[QUOTE]LILLE, France (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen proposed her National Front party be renamed the “National Rally” on Sunday, in a bid to shed a brand associated by many voters with racism and anti-Semitism and facilitate alliances with other parties. Speaking at a party congress meant to help her reassert her authority following her defeat to President Emmanuel Macron last May, Le Pen said the party’s priority should be to gain power, which could only be achieved through a coalition with allies. “Our goal is clear: power,” Le Pen told party cardholders gathered in the northern city of Lille, who cheered her speech denouncing immigration, globalization and a federal Europe. “We were originally a protest party,” she said. “There should be no doubt now that we can be a ruling party.” The new name - “Rassemblement National” in French, meaning rally or union - is meant to show the party’s new willingness to rally other parties behind it, and drop antagonistic connotations of the old Front, she said. In a concession to the old guard, the party will keep its red-white-and-blue flame logo, she said. The idea of changing the party’s name was only approved by a narrow majority of National Front members, with 52 percent backing it on Saturday, according to figures provided by the party. They will get to vote again on the new name by post. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 89-year old far-right veteran who founded the party in 1972, called the name change political “suicide” in an interview with Reuters last month. “The National Front name is associated with an epic and glorious history, which no-one should deny,” Marine Le Pen said. “But you know it is for many French people a psychological barrier.” Rebranding the party is also a way for Marine Le Pen to signal a clear break from her father’s toxic legacy. On Sunday, he was finally banished from the party, marking the end of a bitter power struggle since the daughter took over in 2011.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-politics-lepen/le-pen-wants-frances-national-front-to-be-renamed-national-rally-idUSKCN1GN0L7?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5aa58bee04d3017dbdcb4952&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook"]Reuters.[/URL]
But National Rally sounds just as bad.
[QUOTE]Marine Le Pen proposed her National Front party be renamed the “National Rally” on Sunday, in a bid to shed a brand associated by many voters with racism and anti-Semitism and facilitate alliances with other parties [...] is meant to show the party’s new willingness to rally other parties behind it, and drop antagonistic connotations of the old Front[/QUOTE] Try and divert yourself from a racist and antisemite image by renaming your party almost the same as a [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Rally"]racist and antisemite party from back in WWII[/URL]. Good job you retarded cunt.
would the organization that runs the party then be called the National Rally Association?
[QUOTE]“We were originally a protest party,” she said. “There should be no doubt now that we can be a ruling party.”[/QUOTE] Attention France: This is what America thought for the last five years as the Tea Party (a protest party) transmogrified into the Alt-Right (a protest party) and finished taking over the Republican Party (a protest party). Now the Alt-Right is ostensibly the ruling party, and just look at America since January 2017. Does the catastrophic slip in international standing and humiliating lack of legislative progress look appealing? [sp]If so, just don't vote[/sp]
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