National Front Leaders Start to Acknowledge That Le Pen May Lose
- Candidate’s niece says 40% score would be ‘enormous victory’
- Front’s Marine Le Pen emerged as loser of televised debate
How Marine Le Pen Took Control of the Far Right
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National Front leaders are beginning to acknowledge that Marine Le Pen may be headed for defeat in Sunday’s presidential election after she failed to land the decisive blow she needs to overhaul Emmanuel Macron in Wednesday’s television debate.
Scoring 40 percent in the runoff “would be an enormous victory,” the candidate’s niece and a fellow National Front lawmaker Marion Marechal-Le Pen, told website Boursorama Thursday. Such a result “would position us particularly well to be the opposition or perhaps even the majority” in elections for the National Assembly in June, she added.