France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech for the next year's municipal elections in an end-summer annual address to partisans in Frejus, France September 15, 2019. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
FREJUS, France (Reuters) - French far-right opposition leader Marine Le Pen waded into controversy over the appointment of an EU Commissioner for "protecting the European way of life", endorsing a move that has stoked concern about rising populism across the continent.
Le Pen, leader of the former National Front, last year renamed the National Rally, hailed the appointment as an "ideological victory" during a speech on Sunday in which she also mapped out her path to another presidential run in 2022.
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