Marine Le Pen did what she set out to do: bring the National Front into the mainstream. emilyrs reports from Paris: https://t.co/WyjZKfQqQ0 pic.twitter.com/1y7W2Qafc9- The Atlantic (TheAtlantic) May 8, 2017 Marine Le Pen claimed over 11 million votes and has wiped out the Socialists and the Republicans.
"I am not giving up for ever on this political battle", she added.
She has spent the past six years as president of the National Front single-mindedly focused on one objective: Erasing the stain of her party's association with the ex-collaborationists, the right-wing extremists, immigrant-hating racists and anti-Semites who founded it 45 years ago. Marion will not be participating in legislative elections this June.
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We are going to keep fighting". "It's in our own hands and we know if we win all our own games we will be champions". Casemiro said the win at Granada was hard-earned, telling reporters: "There are no easy games.
Maréchal-Le Pen also came into conflict with FN vice-president Florian Philippot who she claimed had too much influence. While Marine is estranged from him, Marion has closer ties. She wanted to cancel school lunch for children of undocumented immigrants; cut medical help to undocumented immigrants; render halal and kosher meat illegal; decrease legal immigration to 10,000 people a year; hold a referendum to take France out of the European Union; recognize Crimea as Russian Federation; and denied the French state's role in the Holocaust.
In a head-to-head with centrist Emmanuel Macron, Le Pen garnered just under 34 percent of the vote, a smaller percentage than many expected in the wake of a leak of information shortly before election day. Jean-Marie Le Pen reportedly called her decision to leave politics "a desertion".
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