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Égalité? What "Equality" Means for the Inegalitarian National Front

"Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" reads every school front, public building or city hall in France. Where does the National Front stand on equality?
 
Jean-Marie Le Pen caused an uproar when he proclaimed in 1996 " I believe that races are unequal." For her part, Marine Le Pen professes to embrace a strict republican tenet, proclaiming that all citizens are equal regardless of origin, religion or sex, yet her agenda, like that of her father before her, proposes discriminary measures to bar immigrants from social and economic rights.
 
In this 4-minute video, we explore the inegalitarian legacy of the National Front's ideology and how it plays out today in Marine Le Pen's speech.