Defeated first-round candidate Dupont-Aignan endorses Le Pen for French president

Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for French 2017 presidential election, arrives at her campaign headquarters in Paris, France, April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

PARIS (Reuters) - Defeated first-round French presidential candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan endorsed Marine Le Pen and struck a deal on the future government with the far-right leader who, polls show, would lose to the centrist Emmanuel Macron in the May 7 runoff.

Right-winger Dupont-Aignan, who scored 4.7 percent of votes in the first round, said he had signed an agreement on the future government with Marine Le Pen that takes into account some "evolution" of her programme.