France’s centre-right UMP party has become embroiled in a fresh scandal over alleged illegal funding of former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2012 election campaign, days after it was badly beaten in European elections by the far right National Front (FN).
法国中右翼政党人民运动联盟(UMP)陷入新的丑闻——前总统尼古拉•萨科齐(Nicolas Sarkozy) 2012年的竞选涉嫌非法筹资。几天前,该党在欧洲议会选举中惨败于极右翼的国民阵线(National Front)。
The affair underlines the disarray among France’s two traditional leading parties after the FN, led by Marine Le Pen, trounced both the UMP and President François Hollande’s ruling Socialist party in Sunday’s European poll.
此事凸显出,继马琳•勒庞(Marine Le Pen)领导的国民阵线在上周日的欧洲议会选举中,击败人民运动联盟和总统弗朗索瓦•奥朗德(François Hollande)所在的执政党社会党(Socialist party)之后,法国两个传统主流政党陷于混乱。