Much will depend on Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front or, more precisely, on its first-round supporters.
Jean-Marie Le Pen: Le Pen is a far-right nationalist and the founder of the National Front party.
There is even an echo of the anti-elite message preached by the National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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He ran for the 2002 presidency, but was beaten into third place by far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Hagen, is sometimes compared to Jean-Marie Le Pen, France's leading right-wing xenophobe, though the Norwegian is much milder.
Most probably we will be dealing with an ultra-right nationalistic party, like that of Jean-Marie Le Pen in France.
Its leader, Jean-Marie le Pen, has long played on disaffection with the elite as much as on xenophobic nationalism.
As long as the civil servant making the decision did not vote for the immigrants' foe, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
The leader of France's extreme-right National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, now hurls most of his abuse at Muslims, not Jews.
These proposals are less drastic than, for instance, those of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front in France, which advocates blanket repatriation.
Such was the support for Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front leader, that he evicted the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin, in the first round.
For years he has been the right-hand man of Jean-Marie Le Pen and was briefly the leader of a far-right group within the European Parliament.
Jean-Marie le Pen terms it "one veil, one vote" for his party - as many now fear that Islamic fundamentalism is being nurtured on French soil.
In January she took over the party leadership from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who stunned France by reaching the second round of the presidential election in 2002.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, of the far-right National Front, studiously silent during the worst of the riots, now claims to be the only politician to have foreseen the trouble.
Mr Sarkozy himself knows that, if he does not take a tough approach, there is a candidate lurking on the far right who is eager to benefit: Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Mr Brunerie is said to have a number of links to far-right organisations, standing as a local election candidate for the National Republican Movement (MNR), an offshoot of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front.
In the 2002 presidential election, even without a split in the party, the left paid a heavy price for its fragmentation: the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen evicted Mr Jospin in the first round.
Ms. Le Pen's result was far better than polls predicted and above the showing of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, when he qualified for the second round of the presidential election in 2002.
Despite Mr Sarkozy's tough talk on crime and immigration, the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen remains a threat (although he has yet to secure the 500 signatures needed to appear on the ballot paper).
Mr Davidson told Today that Britain did not want to become like France, where far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has just won enough votes to take on Jacques Chirac to become the country's president.
The National Front has been well-entrenched in France's political life for decades under Jean-Marie Le Pen before his daughter Marine took charge last year, said Thomas Klau of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Resorting to irony, Jean-Marie le Pen of the far-right Front National declared on national radio: "My Swiss bank account was always known to the French tax revenue and I wear pants made in France".
The National Front has been well entrenched in France's political life for decades, under Jean-Marie Le Pen before his daughter Marine took charge last year, said Thomas Klau, of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
And second, a sharp drop in support for the far right National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and for a hotch-potch of extreme left and single-issue candidates has pulled French politics firmly back into the mainstream.
According to polls, those most worried about enlargement are the elderly, those in north and eastern France, and the least educated: precisely the recruiting ground for France's most Eurosceptical politician of all, the far-right National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Indeed, on December 9th almost 6m viewers saw him triumph, in a two-hour grilling on live television, over a string of opponents ranging from media pundits and the Socialists' former minister, Elisabeth Guigou, to the extreme-right bogeyman, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
In an interview with French television on Monday, he also alleged that the former head of the far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, funded part of his 1988 presidential campaign with money from Gabon's late ex-president Omar Bongo, AFP reports.
Recently, for fear of xenophobic presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen, they felt themselves obliged to give a resounding vote in favor of Jacques Chirac, a president in whom they have no confidence and whom many believe to be on the take.
This multiplicity adds democratic spice and entertainment value, but for mainstream candidates it can cause serious problems as it did most notoriously in April 2002, when the National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen squeezed into the run-off against Jacques Chirac, ousting the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin.
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