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Marine Le Pen: the new face of the far-right

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This Saturday, far-right leader Marine Le Pen will officially launch her presidential campaign. While her stated aim is to win next spring's election, her hope is to replicate her father's performance in 2002, when he beat all predictions and reached the run-off. To do so, his daughter has worked hard to transform the National Front into a "normal" party. So who is Marine Le Pen? Is there truly a "new" National Front?

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On the set:

- Fiammetta Venner, Co-author, "Marine Le Pen" (published by Grasset)

- Dave Clark, Paris deputy bureau chief, AFP news agency.

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Sarkozy Can pull it off

by Anonyme - 15/03/2012 - 14:32

Just a little vote rigging like they are doing in the US and he gets to become president.

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