[VIDEO] France Elections: Topless FEMEN Activists Storm Voting Station Wearing Putin, Le Pen Masks
Posted: April 23, 2017 Filed under: France, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Associated Press, Donald Trump, Elections in France, Emmanuel Macron, European Union, François Fillon, France, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen Leave a comment
Topless FEMEN activists wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin and National Front leader Marine Le Pen protested outside the Henin-Beaumont voting station on Sunday, as Le Pen arrived to cast her ballot.
Topless demonstrators from the Femen activist group have caused a commotion as they staged a stunt against Marine Le Pen outside a polling station where the far-right presidential candidate was heading to vote.
Around six topless Femen activists were detained Sunday morning after jumping out of an SUV limo wearing masks of Le Pen and United States President Donald Trump.
Police and security forces quickly forced them into police vans, confiscating their signs.
Le Pen voted at the station shortly after without further disruption.
The election is taking place amid heightened security. The government has mobilized more than 50,000 police and gendarmes to protect polling stations. (more)
Source: fox8live
Sacre Bleu! Le Pen Leads New Opinion Poll
Posted: January 11, 2017 Filed under: France, Global, Mediasphere, Politics, Terrorism | Tags: Donald Trump, Elections in France, Emmanuel Macron, Far-right politics, François Fillon, François Hollande, France, Manuel Valls, Marine Le Pen, National Front (France), President of France, Socialist Party (France) Leave a comment
A new poll from Ifop-Fiducial released Tuesday shows Le Pen at first place with the backing of 26.5 percent of voters, while her moderate center-right rival Francois Fillon, of Les Republicains, would receive just over 24 percent of the vote, the poll suggested.
“He is putting in place measures I have been demanding for years.”
— Le Pen said of Trump
The new poll, which was conducted the first week of January, was based on a sample of 1,860 registered voters and has a margin of error of 1.3 percent.
The poll represents the first time Le Pen has led with voters since November, and coincides with a noticeable decline in popularity for Fillon, who was polling at roughly 28 percent in December. Read the rest of this entry »
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