Polls currently suggest the French presidential election final round in May will be a battle between the newly chosen Republican party candidate and the Front National leader, Marine Le Pen. “Fillon presents us with a strategy problem, he’s the most dangerous [candidate] for the Front National,” Marion Maréchal Le Pen, the Catholic and socially conservative Front National MP and niece of Marine Le Pen, told journalists this week. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The National Front leader, Marine Le Pen, centre, poses for a selfie during a campaign visit to the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. Le Pen’s campaign director, David Rachline, has called Fillon’s programme “economically insane” for wanting to slash 500,000 public sector jobs. Fillon, in return, says Le Pen’s economic project is simply “a cut and paste of the extreme left”.

Source: The Guardian November 27, 2016 20:26 UTC