Unemployment plan in place to combat the Front National party

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has promised to curb unemployment levels in a direct response to counter the rise of the Front National (FN), reports deVere France.

This comes just 24 hours after the far-right political party suffered defeat at the polls, but this doesn’t mask the significant support they received during the first round of voting a week ago. In fact, a key aspect of the defeat was the Socialists (PS) withdrawing their participants in key areas, instead urging voters to back Nicolas Sarkozy’s Les Républicans (LR) party to keep the FN at bay. Marine Le Pen, leader of the Front National, has since described the process as electoral sabotage.

Mr Valls has commented on the “danger” that the Front National poses for the next presidential election, stating that the country “had been warned about the threat from the extreme right”. The Front National has once managed to gain entry to the second round of voting during the presidential elections in 2002, with politicians then pledging that this would never happen again. He has now vowed to combat the FN’s current rise by providing solutions to the “state of emergency” that the French economy is currently experiencing, with unemployment the “priority of priorities”.

The actual plans are yet to be revealed, although they are expected to come into effect by January. Mr Valls explained that France’s priority was to focus on the essentials, namely job creation and improving training for the underqualified.

The results of the elections have led many politicians of varying parties to suggest that the country has now reached a defining moment due to the FN’s success. It has not escaped anyone’s attention that only an increasing turnout in voters, combined with the aforementioned tactical voting, meant that the Front National didn’t win any regions, a result that many had branded as a disaster. There has since been an immediate response from all sides of politics.

deVere France understands that Mr Sarkozy met with members of the LR and has decided to make changes to his political team for the 2017 presidential campaign, whereas Emmanuelle Cosse of the Europe Ecology (Green) party has called for thorough changes to the political system.

Head of the Socialists (PS), Jean-Christophe Cambadélis has claimed that he will “never forget the results, especially the first round”, whilst the La Croix newspaper delivered a headline that seems to have captured the thoughts of everyone at this moment in time. It simply read “Regionals: defeat for all”. 2016 therefore looks set to be an interesting year for French politics.

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