French Far-Right Presidential Candidates Fight for Limelight
Marine Le Pen during a meeting of party leaders in Prague.
Photographer: Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images
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Paris (AP) -- France’s dueling far-right presidential candidates held back-to-back campaign rallies Saturday, trying to steal each other’s thunder and keep their nationalist, anti-immigration agenda front and center in the race for April's presidential election.
Marine Le Pen, who came in second in the 2017 presidential election, was holding her first major campaign event in the city of Reims in Champagne country. She presented her platform to thousands of supporters and tried to reinvigorate her base after some high-profile defections to the campaign of rival Eric Zemmour.