On the rise: National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen saw his party win almost 12 per cent of the vote in French regional elections Nicolas Sarkozy has received a drubbing in French regional elections which saw the re-emergence of the far-Right National Front. The president’s ruling UMP party polled 26 per cent in the first round of voting and the Socialists almost 30 per cent. But Jean Marie... 

France’s extreme-right National Front is poised to win its first town council in a decade after gaining ground in the north’s former mining heartlands of Pas de Calais, far from the party’s traditional southern base. The far-right party, led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, has reached record popularity in Hénin-Beaumont, a depressed former coalmining town struggling with high unemployment,... 

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... 

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...