PARIS (AP) — The head of France's far-right National Front vowed on Thursday to bring suit against the French state over the situation in Calais, where thousands of migrants are camped in hopes of reaching Britain.
Marine Le Pen, in the race for president of the northern region, went on the offensive three days before Sunday's elections, and a day after a poll suggested she might lose.
She claimed on BFM television that the port city had deteriorated to the point where the mayor was issuing passes to residents to get home — a claim the mayor quickly denied.
Le Pen led by a wide margin in first-round voting Dec. 6, but a poll by TNS-Sofres-One Point published Wednesday suggested that both Marine Le Pen and her niece, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, who is running in the south, would lose in the final round. Such an outcome would be a major setback for the National Front — and for Marine Le Pen's planned bid for the presidency in 2017.
The two Le Pens scored so well in round one that the governing Socialists, straggling in third place, ordered their candidates to withdraw so their voters could cast ballots for the rival conservative mainstream to block the far right. ...
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