France's Le Pen Rises After Trump Win
France's anti-establishment and anti-Europe party leader Marine Le Pen congratulated U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and said his victory is a harbinger of what could happen in her own country.
"The election of Donald Trump is good news for our country," the presidential candidate and National Front leader said in a televised statement Wednesday at the party headquarters near Paris. "Lets trust the French people, who cherish their liberty, will see this as one more opportunity to break with the current system that's shackling them," she said, beaming through her nearly five-minute speech. The changes wrought by voters in the U.S. and the U.K. "are burying the old world," she said.
The anti-immigration candidate for next spring's presidential election may be the politician who has the most to gain from Trumps victory. Already the leading candidate in polls for the first round of voting, the populist surge makes her own prospects of victory in the second round vote more plausible, according to Bruno Cautres, a political scientist at Cevipof in Paris.
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