Toronto Star

Le Pen promises to name ex-rival as PM

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Marine Le Pen, the far-right French presidenti­al candidate, said Saturday that she would name a former rival and fellow euroskepti­c as her prime minister if elected, in a new effort to broaden her appeal and defeat her centrist opponent, Emmanuel Macron, in the second round of the country’s elections next Sunday.

Le Pen said she had reached an agreement with Nicolas DupontAign­an, a right-wing politician who shares her distrust of the European Union and globalizat­ion and who gathered 4.7 per cent of the vote in the election’s first round. Le Pen gathered 21.3 per cent.

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