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Marine Le Pen
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Officials from Marine Le Pen’s movement are in advanced talks with other far-right groups in the European Parliament that could see her party abandon its current political family to join forces with Hungary’s Viktor Orban.
Members of Le Pen’s Identity and Democracy group, which was set up in 2019 to represent far-right and extreme nationalist views across the bloc, plan to meet with EU allies the day after France’s election concludes this weekend to discuss the party’s future, according to a person directly involved in the talks.