This essay will attempt to answer such a question by analysing three main areas of the Front: Firstly, we will look at its increasing popularity during election results since the party was founded in the Seventies . ... Since then the party has gone from strength-to-strength, as Gilles Ivaldi tells us: "While electorally irrelevant throughout the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s Le Pen's party has enjoyed high levels of electoral support over the last decade."4 From 1984 onwards, the Front now enjoyed an average of 10 to 15% of votes in variou...

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