Far
right French politician Marion Maréchal-Le Pen addressed a leading
conservative conference outside Washington DC on Thursday as part of
growing effort by those on the right to link the rise of Donald Trump in
the United States with populist nationalism across Europe.
Maréchal-Le
Pen is the granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the far
right National Front and the niece of the party’s current leader Marine
Le Pen. She was elected to represent it in the French National Assembly
in 2012 at the age of 22 but has since taken a step back from politics.
Speaking
to a crowd of conservative activists that booed every time she
mentioned the European Union, Maréchal-Le Pen combined condemnation of
the trans-national bloc with attacks on Muslim immigration and old
fashioned social conservatism in an effort to link her political efforts
against “the domination of the liberals and the socialists” with the
election of Trump and the Brexit process in the United Kingdom.
Source: YahooNews
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