Marine Le Pen representing the extreme-right Front National came with a key, saying that she wanted to give French people their house back. One of the hosts interrupted the broadcast to announce that a possible terrorist attack had taken place. Without saying a word about the attack, Poutou launched into his show-and-tell session. When Emmanuel Macron the founder of the centrist movement En Marche! By late April, French Presidential campaigns have usually settled into a simple duel between the two main parties, the Socialists and the Republicans, but this race was a free-for-all.
The world was looking to the French election as either a ratification or a rejection of the populist surge that had led to Brexit and Trump. The balance of power among America, Europe, and Russia was also at stake. With four candidates hovering somewhere in the vicinity of twenty per cent, the permutations of possible matchups and outcomes were almost too complicated to contemplate.
This was all before prosecutors put Fillon under formal investigation for misuse of public funds according to allegations, he paid his wife and children parliamentary salaries for work they never did and arrested several close associates of Le Pen who ignored a summons to testify about a fake-jobs scandal of her own. In the following hours, the specifics of the attack emerged. Police shot Cheurfi as he tried to escape on foot.
According to prosecutors, a note praising ISIS was found near his body. Three days later, Macron and Le Pen progressed to the second round , garnering The last time a French Presidential election was anywhere near this wild was in But in the first round of voting, he came in second, propelling him to a runoff against Chirac, who was embroiled in a corruption scandal. An array of parties that had previously had no common interest banded together to repel Le Pen.
Marine, the youngest of three Le Pen daughters, was born in When Marine was sixteen, her mother, Pierrette, left Jean-Marie for his biographer.
