FREXIT : Marine Le Pen Vows to Put France First and Liberate Them From the EU

Marine Le Pen has officially launched her presidential campaign and is promising to put France first by liberating the country from globalization, Islamic migrants, and the European Union.

From The Guardian

As the most unpredictable election in decades picked up pace, Le Pen, leader of the nationalist Front National, and far-left independent rival Jean-Luc Mélenchon, both staged major rallies in Lyon on Sunday – a day after the new frontrunner, centrist Emmanuel Macron, drew large crowds in the same city.

The election has been thrown open since allegations that the longstanding centre-right favourite, François Fillon, paid his wife and children close to €1m of public money for parliamentary assistance jobs that investigators suspect she did not do.

Opinion polls have consistently predicted Le Pen will win the first round of the two-stage contest in April but be defeated in the 7 May run-off by a mainstream candidate. With support for Fillon plunging, two polls last week suggested that could be Macron.

“What is at stake in this election is the continuity of France as a free nation, our existence as a people,” Le Pen, daughter of the Front National founder, Jean-Marie, told cheering supporters at the Lyon congress centre.