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All sides join for lepen defeat Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=11810391&method=full&siteid=50143 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=11810391&method=full&siteid=50143 NON, NON, NON Apr 23 2002 By Lorraine Davidson, Europe Correspondent And Bob Roberts POLITICAL leaders of Europe joined forces yesterday to fight the rise of the Far Right in the wake of France's election bombshell. But French National Front chief Jean-Marie Le Pen - second in the first round of the presidential race - immediately became a rallying point for the continent's increasingly powerful extremist parties. FIRM: Le Pen has become a rallying point for Europe's far right parties A concerned Tony Blair stepped in to declare through his official spokesman: "We trust the French people to reject extremism of any kind." As Britain ditched traditional neutrality on foreign elections, Commons Leader Robin Cook called Le Pen's politics a "menace to the European model of social justice and ethnic tolerance". He added: "It is vital for France and for Europe that he is defeated." France - which let in Le Pen through a mixture of disenchantment with the political main- stream and voter apathy - saw tens of thousands take to the streets to protest and express a sense of shame. And a crucial "Non" to Le Pen's anti-immigrant stance came when supporters of defeated Prime Minister Lionel Jospin pledged backing to his opponent President Chirac in the May 5 run-off. Chirac, three per cent ahead of Le Pen in Sunday's vote, made a dramatic appeal: "I call on all French men and women to gather to defend human rights. France needs you, I need you." APPEAL: Chirac called on the electorate to 'defend human rights' Le Pen was proclaiming "I can win" - and his boast was felt in Britain ahead of next month's local elections. British National Party chairman Nick Griffin, whose group is fielding 68 candidates, said: "We are very pleased. It is a victory for France and it is a blow to liberal totalitarianism. "We will see the same thing repeated in England on May 2." In Belgium, Filip Dewinter - leader of the far-right Vlaams Blok that took a third of the vote in Antwerp in 2000 - said: "I'm very, very pleased that Le Pen scored such a large victory. We are brothers in arms." Joerg Haider, former head of Austria's Freedom Party, said: "Anyone who speaks out against excessive and uncontrolled immigration or the abuse of asylum laws is immediately branded an extremist." Germany's new Law and Order party was keen to distance itself from Le Pen, as was the Dutch anti-immigrant party of Pim Fortuyn. Ten thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and teargas was used to disperse rioters who confronted police. Other protests flared from Marseille in the south to Lille in the north. Some people waved banners which read "I'm ashamed to be French." Simon Murphy, Britain's Labour leader in the European Parliament said: "The far right is fast becoming a cancer in our political system." Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it was "a very worrying development indeed...a wake-up call to Western Europe". Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks said: "It should trouble all those with long political memories." German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said: "The share of the vote for the ultra-right is alarming." Le Pen, 73, thinking of overall victory, said: "The first question I would raise is the recovery of French liberty and an exit from the Europe of Maastricht." The man who once called Nazi gas chambers a "detail" of history but denies being anti-Semitic, won 16.9 per cent of the vote. Chirac - dogged by sleaze allegations - topped a poll split among 16 candidates with 19.8. Socialist Jospin was third with 16.1. Turnnout was 72 per cent - low for France. VOICE OF THE MIRROR: DON'T GIVE A LE PEN THE CHANCE HERE

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