One poll can be dismissed as a freak. But now a second opinion poll in France has suggested that Marine Le Pen, the new leader of the National Front (succeeding her dad, Jean-Marie) would top the polls in the first round of the presidential election – beating President Sarkozy and any conceivable Socialist candidate into second and third place. Read more
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