A extrema direita francesa em reconstrução: Marine Le Pen e a desdemonização do Front National [2011- 2017]

Abstract

This research studies the growth of the French extreme right party Front National. In order to understand how it organizes and reorganizes itself throughout its history, how it takes advantage of a tradition of extreme right and inserts itself in it, and especially how it tries to renew itself with the project developed under Marine Le Pen internally and externally called ‘de-demonization’, which, in an attempt to fit in the presente time, softens the way the party presents itself to convince the public opinion that the National Front is not a party of extreme right. It uses various gimmicks, such as management of memory and political feelings, identity, of oneself and of the ‘other’, resignifications of national symbols, and a new posture in relation to democracy and the Republic, all in a studied and controlled way. Amid this is a power project that has been ongoing since the party’s formation. This research examines what is new in the de-demonization project, what in the Front National of Marine Le Pen has continued since Jean-Marie Le Pen, where the ruptures are and what is the same under a new form of presentation.