Far-right surges in French elections

The success of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front party has sent alarm bells ringing across Europe.

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Marine Le Pen: the woman who alarmed Europe

Marine Le Pen "set alarm bells jangling all over Europe" this week with her party's performance in the first roundof the French regional elections, says John Lichfield inThe Independent. If the results are confirmed in the second round this Sunday, the Front National (FN) could preside over three of France's biggest regions. Even if she "falls short" other parties are "scrambling" to block her it still establishes her "deodorised far-right party as the single biggest force in French politics".

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

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