The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le PenThe extreme right wing National Front is now France's fourth largest political party. In 1986 under a proportional electoral system it won thirty five seats in the French National Assembly; in the 1988 Presidential election the National Front's leader, Jean Marie Le Pen, obtained over fourteen percent of the popular vote. Over the past decade, it has won representation at virtually all levels of French politics. Le Pen's xenophobic anti immigrant