"Krone" commentary

Thunderclap in France

Analyzes for the "Krone": Foreign policy expert Kurt Seinitz(Bild: Krone KREATIV/stock.adobe.com)

France is upside down and is currently experiencing the political upheaval of all values: Serge Klarsfeld (88), Nazi hunter, Holocaust survivor and the highest moral authority in the Republic, is publicly considering voting for the Le Pen party. The reason: the Popular Front of radical left-wing populist Jean-Luc Mélenchon has not only slipped into anti-Israeli, but also anti-Semitic waters.

But what about Marine Le Pen's National Rally (formerly the National Front)? This was founded by her father Jean-Marie, a proven anti-Semite and Holocaust denier.

Daughter Marine took over the legacy, kicked father Jean-Marie out of the party and consistently led it towards the center, where the votes are to be won. With this so-called "de-diabolization", she made the extreme right socially acceptable, as Serge Klarsfeld proves. The firewall is collapsing.

Between these two millstones, Emmanuel Macron's bourgeois-liberal center is being completely crushed. Rarely has a president been so unpopular. With his erratic, enigmatic, top-down policies, Macron has led the country down a blind alley. However, the alternatives are not a cure for the "French disease" either: loss of competitiveness and innovation in the economy, spiraling debt and frustration in society. But France is not alone in this ...