Far-right leader Le Pen says Trump win ‘good news for France’

Fourteen years later, 48-year-old Marine Le Pen, who came third in the 2012 election, is trying to overcome the last remaining pockets of anti-FN resistance.

On Wednesday morning, many French politicians warned the possibility of a president Marine Le Pen should no longer be dismissed as the stuff of political fiction.

After Donald Trump’s shock win in the United States, French pollsters and pundits are now warning that surprises should not be ruled out in France’s presidential election next year because of an untested primary system and a fragmented political field.

Bishop told reporters in Canberra, Australia’s capital, that her government is ready to work with whomever the American people, “in their wisdom”, choose to be their president.

Le Pen, 48, called Trump’s election “good news for our country”, France 24 reported.

“More generally, wild globalisation” would be tamed, and she predicted that worldwide relations would improve, “notably with Russia”.

“What happened last night was not the end of the world but the end of a world”.

During his speech in NY, the Republican candidate said that now was the time to “come together as one united nation” and promised he will begin the “urgent task of renewing the American dream”. She has dubbed herself “Madame Frexit”, signaling her intention of ending France’s membership in the EU.

Convinced she can close the gap on a man who embodies the political establishment, Le Pen is continuing her drive to sanitise the FN’s image.

“Trump winning proved to me that people are fed up with politically correct politicians who are concerned and involved with issues that regard themselves but not those that are important to the public”, Wilders said.

In France, the leader of the far-right National Front party, Marine Le Pen, wrote: “Congratulations to the new president of the United States and to the American people, [set] free!”

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Donald Trump agreed on the importance of the U.S. military alliance with Australia and the importance of the U.S. military presence to the security of the Asia-Pacific region, Australia’s prime minister said on Thursday after his first telephone conversation with the U.S. President-elect.

“The boundaries of reason disappeared with Brexit; the main lesson for France is that Le Pen can win”, Raffarin said. Le Pen has failed to win any major executive post in the local, county or even regional elections since she began seeking the people’s votes in 2004.

Vladimir Putin was the first global leader to welcome Donald Trump’s stunning election victory, which left much of the rest of the world anxious at the prospect of the businessman and reality-TV star at the helm of the world’s biggest economy and most powerful military.

“Currently, the consensus is that Marine Le Pen is going to make it to the second round, but to eventually lose the presidential election”. She would do better in a contest with Nicolas Sarkozy, a frenetic former president, against whom polls suggest she would win 42% of the vote, than she would if she faced Alain Juppé, a professorial former prime minister, against whom she would win 32%. There’s also the resistance to change. Like the Republican, these groups have gained in strength among European voters – particularly those in rural, underprivileged areas – with the similar message that immigration is eroding jobs and national identity.

“There could be a kind of contagion effect. While I think she is capped for the 2017 election in France, I can see her making it in the next presidential election in 2022”.