Marine le Pen, leader of France's right-wing National Rally. Picture: BLOOMBERG
The 53-year-old candidate also said she wouldn’t want some members of Zemmour’s entourage on her team, labelling them “extremely radical”. It’s a process she started in 2011, when she took over the party from her father Jean-Marie, who founded it as a nationalist, anti-immigration, anti-Semitic movement.
Since then, she’s changed the party name to National Rally, ditched a pledge to exit the eurozone and softened her anti-EU rhetoric. She now wants to alter things such as free-trade agreements and migration law from within, encouraged by polls showing that even though voters are critical of the way the bloc operates, Frexit isn’t a popular solution.
Zemmour, who has been condemned three times for inciting racial hatred, has eroded Le Pen’s support base and lured some top officials from her party, even though his campaign has slipped in surveys in recent weeks. Pecresse, meanwhile, has surged. She and Le Pen are neck-and-neck behind Macron. The top two vote-getters advance to a runoff in the French presidential election system.
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