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Le Pen says 'world peace' would gain from a Trump-Putin-Le Pen trio

By REUTERS

NOVEMBER 16, 2016 18:13

French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that her election as president next year would form a trio of world leaders with US President-elect Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin that "would be good for world peace."

Inaugurating her campaign headquarters for France's 2017 election, just less than two km (one mile) away from the Elysee presidential palace, Le Pen said the premises were "a stopover on the way to (her) final destination down the road." Anti-Europe and anti-immigration, the 48-year-old Le Pen was the only French political leader who backed Trump in the US election.

Her National Front party has been buoyed by his victory and that of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, hoping to ride a similar anti-establishment wave in France to victory in next year's poll.

"There is a worldwide movement. A worldwide movement which rejects unchecked globalisation, destructive ultra-liberalism ... the elimination of nation states, the disappearance of borders," Le Pen told reporters.

"The forces at work in these various elections are ideas, forces which could bring about my election as the president of France next May." Opinion polls see Le Pen making it to the second round of the April and May presidential election but losing that run-off to a mainstream candidate from the centre-right.

But pollsters' failure to predict Trump's win or Britain's vote in June to leave the EU have cast doubt on how reliable election predictions are.

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