Taranaki Daily News

Far-Right Le Pen overhauls Macron ahead of EU poll

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Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has overtaken the centrist party of Emmanuel Macron, the French president, for the first time, according to an opinion poll released yesterday, in a further sign of the rise of the far-Right in Europe. The Ifop poll measured voting intentions for European Parliament elections next May, seen as a decisive battle between pro-EU liberals and Euroscepti­c populists that could be pivotal in shaping the future of the European Union after Brexit.The poll showed Le Pen’s party, formerly known as the Front National, with 21 per cent of voting intentions.

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