Marine Le Pen steps down from National Front

[Landon]

Temporarily stepping down for at least a decent while, Marine Le Pen has decided that it is time to cut ties with her leadership of the National Front with less than two weeks to go before France's runoff vote takes place.

The article that I am reading suggests that this is a way for her to show that she is embracing a wide range of supporters, whether have the National Front's ideals or not.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen announced Monday she is temporarily stepping down as head of her National Front party with less than two weeks ago before the country chooses its leader in a runoff vote.

The move appears to be a way for Le Pen to embrace a wide range of potential voters ahead of the vote pitting her against Emmanuel Macron, the independent centrist who came in first in Sunday's first round, The Associated Press reported.

"Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate," she said on French public television news.

Le Pen has said in the past that she is not a candidate of her party, and made that point when she rolled out her platform in February, saying the measures she was espousing were not her party's, but her own.

She also has tried to distance herself numerous times from a string of controversial comments by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the party before being kicked out in 2015.

@-:Undertaker:-; because this is your area of expertise

[scottish]

He already posted in the French elections thread.