Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front, is one of the most divisive politicians in Europe—and a frontrunner in France's presidential election this spring. What does she stand for, and can she win? Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty ImagesPARIS—For more than a year, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, representing the once-ostracized National Front, met with influential bankers, corporate executives and government officials to get advice on the radical changes vowed by her campaign. Now the group is helping plan what she hopes will be her first 100 days in office. Le Pen has dubbed these members of France’s elite “Les Horaces,” a reference to the poet...
Source: Wall Street Journal March 27, 2017 17:26 UTC