... essay, I intend to look at three countries - Austria, France and the Netherlands - and the unmitigated rise in support for their right-wing parties. I intend to closely look at their party leaders and question is it ultimately their leadership skills and charisma that has led the meteoric rise of the right-wing? France One of the most prominent voices on the extreme far-right is the leader of the French National Front party, Jean Marie le Pen. Over the years, the National Front has made slow and steady victory in local balloting and polls, without having to moderate its messages of racism, xenophobia and bigotry. "In no major country has the resurgence of an ultra nationalist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic political party made more headway than France. With a vote share of between 15 and 20 percent, Jean Marie Le Pen's National Front has become a central element in French political life". (ADL, 2002) ...

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