So he is a populist anti-elite anti-immigrant clown (deprived of his EP seat for physically assaulting another candidate), with an impressive past (decorated veteran of the French paratroops in Indochina, Suez, and Algeria).

Probably a threat mainly to the socialists as he mainly attracts the votes of disgruntled working class people who don't like living next to Arab immigrants, (especially as he focus on being tough on crime)?

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