It may be an exaggeration to claim, as she does on electoral posters, that the FN is "the first party of France".
A safe tactic would be to savage any rival card-writers loudly, dismissing their comments as predominantly "fan mail or electoral posters" (Financial Times).
Around Milan, electoral posters for the anti-immigrant Northern League party depicted a Native American Indian chieftain with the slogan: "They put up with immigration, now they live on reserves".
But because in Poland political opponents scrawl this sort of graffiti on centrist and left politicians' electoral posters the message is at best of bad taste.A third weekly splashed an explicit cartoon (pictured below) on its cover, in which a group of people push the Polish coat-of-arms' white eagle to the abyss, a stone hanging from the bird's neck.
But Mr. Haider's past reference to Nazi concentration camps as "punishment camps," his praise of Hitler's labor policies and his party's racist anti-immigration electoral posters have awakened ghosts that Europe is determined to suppress, even if Mr. Haider has never passed from words to deeds.
All around Russia, members of the Communist and Just Russia parties have come forward with complaints that their newspapers have been confiscated and their electoral propaganda posters destroyed.
In restive Donetsk – the scene of clashes in recent months between Ukrainian loyalists and pro-Russian secessionists – there are a few posters and electoral campaigning has been kept to a minimum.
In 1979, the famous "Labour isn't working" poster helped Margaret Thatcher achieve electoral victory and in 2001, Labour's controversial mash-up of Margaret Thatcher and William Hague made headlines.
A detective sergeant has written to Jay Tiernan, a leading member of the Stop the Cull group, suggesting the leaflets and posters could constitute an electoral offence.
He is particularly interested in ending gerrymandering, citing his district as a poster child for the way electoral borders are drawn to ensure incumbents keep getting elected.
