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Old 04-24-2017, 05:59 PM
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French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen steps down as leader of National Front'

"French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has announced that she is stepping down as head of the far right National Front party.
Monday's move appears to be a way for Le Pen to embrace a wide range of potential voters ahead of the May 7 runoff between herself and Emmanuel Macron, the independent centrist who came in first in Sunday's first round.


“Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate,” she said on French public television news.
Le Pen has said that she is not a candidate of her party, and made that point when she rolled out her platform in February, saying the measures she was espousing were not her party's, but her own." LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-f...424-story.html

Marine LePen tries to change her spots.
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Old 04-24-2017, 06:44 PM
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Marine LePen tries to change her spots.
Modern-day Vichy Fascist, thru and thru.
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Old 04-25-2017, 01:07 PM
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Check the wording again - she is not stepping down but stepping aside - she has not relinquished a damn thing.
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Old 04-26-2017, 08:52 AM
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The politics of "mealy mouth"......
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