Le Pen promises to name ex-rival as PM
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.