Le Pen win would be ‘major disorder’—Lagarde

The head of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday said a victory by the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential elections this year could cause political and economic upheaval. “It would certainly entail major disorder,” IMF managing director Christine Lagarde, a former French economy minister, told CNBC television in Washington, where the fund and World Bank were kicking off semi-annual meetings.