Well, it's a well known scarecrow tactics from the rest of the parties. They'll all wear horrified looks for a week, tell the voters that Democracy's Future is

Well, it's a well known scarecrow tactics from the rest of the parties. They'll all wear horrified looks for a week, tell the voters that Democracy'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. 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 'extremist' party in your country) making serious advance, you first /encourage/ the electorate to go for a 'rejection vote' -- and when it works, everyone will look at each others saying 'OMG, what have we done!' and vote the usual complete incompetent at the second round. Pfew, we're all safe again. The last excellent example of this tactic's implementation was the UKIP rise and fall in the UK; that was textbook. I'm writing this as a French national living in the UK, but also as a completely apolitical observer BTW.