Though the self-proclaimed lie of "liberté, egalité, fraternité", France seems a far distant from a multicultural society thanks the rife Racist attitudes in the populace, the state, and the police. Each yearly survey on French attitudes to race, religion commissioned by the French government, showed 38 percent of the population declaring themselves racist, double the figures for Britain and Germany.
The French mood has surged further to the extreme right while Sarkozy's presidential spell lacked direction and leadership. Since his election the French economy went on decline with huge unemployment and civil unrest in many of France's suburbs.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the Front National, an openly racist, far-right party, won vote most votes in a poll recently carried out in France for the presidential elections. Though other factors were involved, the vote reflected a significant swing to the right fuelled as usual by fears of crime, immigration and unemployment. In response, the new right-wing government seems intent to steal Le Pen party's ideas on introducing tougher policies in easy target and soft areas such immigration.
How fed up are the French with broken promises? So fed up that a poll shows that far Rightist Jean MarieLe Pen would defeat Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round if next year's French Presidential election were held today.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front party, would beat President Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round of a presidential election next year, an opinion poll showed on Saturday.
Renaud Sarda
The survey by Harris Interactive, published on the website of Le Parisien daily, showed Le Pen winning 23 percent of votes in the first of the election's two voting rounds, versus 21 percent for the centre-right president. Sarkozy has not announced whether he will run for re-election, but his party and Prime Minister Francois Fillon are promoting him as the natural choice for a candidate.
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