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Al Jazeera interviews French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, tipped to be the presidential candidate for the Socialist Party, has been undermined by a sexual assault case.
The incumbent Nicholas Sarkozy’s popularity has taken a knock in the last year as well.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the Nation Front Party, is hoping to use the failures of both men to her advantage.
In the interview, Marine Le Pen said that “Nicolas Sarkozy...
Marine Le Pen ahead of Sarkozy in presidential poll
Marine Le Pen the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen recently became leader of the National Front succeeding her father. She is turning out to be a slick operator. With the French presidential elections less than a year away she is polling ahead of President Sarkozy.
She doesn’t deny that there used to anti-Semitism in the party. Now she says she has only one thing to say to anyone with those views “...
New European leaders emerge
A recent poll by CSA reveals that Nicolas Sarkozy would have to face Marine Le Pen in the 2012 French presidential elections.
For centuries, Germany and France have determined the fate of the European continent, from war to peace and prosperity. While the single market has made distant the prospect of war, the leaders of these two powers ― Europe’s two largest economies ― still hold the...
French far right wants closer ties with Moscow instead of with the EU and the US
While the EU forces France to accept more and more immigrants, the country has already had enough, with anti-ethnic sentiments growing every year, believes Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right party National Front.
Marine follows the political line of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front, who is famous in France and all over the world for his conservative and anti-immigration...
Marine Le Pen's National Front performs well in local elections
Polls have shown Marine Le Pen could beat Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round of next year's presidential election.
Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front party was predicted to have made significant progress in the first round of local elections in France, while Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party fared badly.
The French local elections, for part of the cantons in the country’s 100...
Arab Refugees Finding Harsh Welcome In Europe
Marine Le Pen, far-right leader of France's National Front Party, waits with the party's Louis Aliot outside an immigrant detention center during her visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa on March 14.
Refugees fleeing the upheaval in North Africa are running into a different sort of political conflict in Europe.
Since mid-January, more than 10,000 refugees from countries such as Tunisia...
Le Pen's daughter looks likely to lead from front
Marine Le Pen says she is not racist but a multicultural country can never live in peace.
Marine Le Pen was late back from lunch. This is a common condition among French politicians but unusual for Le Pen. She is known for being on time and being polite, charming and, unlike her father, difficult to dislike. She arrived “only” 20 minutes late.
The National Front, she says, is not a racist...
French Front National leader Jean-Marie Le Pen stepping down for Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen is preparing to take over the far-right National Front from her father Jean-Marie.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the long-serving leader and founder of France’s Front National party, once said that he would never retire. Nevertheless, it’s expected that the 81 year old will step down from frontline politics after the upcoming regional elections. His daughter Marine is his heir-apparent,...
Le Pen's daughter in National Front victory
The French political establishment scrambled yesterday to try to block a significant electoral breakthrough by the daughter of the veteran far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Marine Le Pen, 40, and her running-mate topped the poll on Sunday night’s municipal by-election in Hénin-Beaumont, an impoverished former coal mining town near Lens in the Pas de Calais. Having won nearly 40 per cent of...
French Nationalists won 3 Seats in the European Union Parliament June 7, 2009!
The French National Front sent 3 MEPs to Brussels, its one more than 2004, France had 2 before. The names are: Jean Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen and Bruno Gollnisch.
In UK: 2 MEPs from the BNP, and 12 confirmed MEPs from UKIP or more.
Despite the typical bashing of the corrupted media outlets, the BNP was socially made to look “radical”, despite the fact that they are pro-English only, being...
Marine Le Pen demands France to stop financing an uncontrolled EU wanting to include Islamic Turkey
Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, has asked the French government to freeze its financial contribution to the European Union, she estimates that money should be given to French citizens severely impacted by the economic crisis.
She will head the National Front for the European elections for the North-West region, she adds that every year France contributes 19 billions Euros and it only...