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'National Rally': Le Pen proposes new party name for National Front
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Mar 11, 2018 07:32pm |
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| Author | BBC |
| News Date | Sunday, March 11, 2018 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen has proposed changing her party's name to National Rally from National Front in a bid to improve its image.
She told members that the current name was a "psychological barrier" for voters.
The plan to change the party's name was approved by a slim majority and members will get to vote again on the proposal.
Ms Le Pen was defeated by President Emmanuel Macron in a run-off vote last year.
Since then the party has lost voters and Ms Le Pen has come under attack from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the party in 1972.
Mr Le Pen, 89, told Reuters last month that a name change would be political "suicide".
But Ms Le Pen hopes it will change attitudes to her party, which is associated by many voters with racism and anti-Semitism, and make it easier to form alliances with other parties. |
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