Le Pen Battles to Keep Control of Her Party
- National Front has no obvious challenger to Le Pen as leader
- Party grandees demand a return to traditional issues
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Marine Le Pen lost the French presidency on Sunday. Now she’s fighting to keep control of her own party.
While Le Pen racked up the National Front’s biggest ever tally with more than 10 million votes, her score of 34 percent still fell short of many activists’ expectations after a year which had seen Britain vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump take power in the U.S.