It's been commonplace for decades in French political life for the right to equate the FN with the PCF (subtext : the PS is allowed to ally itself with the left-wing extremists, why can't we ally with the extreme right?) We're hearing less of this now that the right has understood that they need to form an alliance with the FN.

Hence Fillon's recent speech where he effectively equated the PS and the FN as extremists...

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}