Well, it&#x27;s a well known scarecrow tactics from the rest of the parties. They&#x27;ll all wear horrified looks for a week, tell the voters that Democracy&#x27;s Future is a stake and so on and so forth, and the sheep^H^H^H^Hvoters will vote for anyone else next week.
That was the case in pretty all the other elections were the far right lead at the first round.<p>It works really well as a tactic too; if there is a risk of the far right (or the UKIP, or whatever is the pet &#x27;extremist&#x27; party in your country) making serious advance, you first &#x2F;encourage&#x2F; the electorate to go for a &#x27;rejection vote&#x27; -- and when it works, everyone will look at each others saying &#x27;OMG, what have we done!&#x27; and vote the usual complete incompetent at the second round. Pfew, we&#x27;re all safe again.<p>The last excellent example of this tactic&#x27;s implementation was the UKIP rise and fall in the UK; that was textbook.<p>I&#x27;m writing this as a French national living in the UK, but also as a completely apolitical observer BTW.