Down but not out: France's Le Pen vows to fight on


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  • Monday, 25 Apr 2022

Marine Le Pen, French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party candidate for the 2022 French presidential election, speaks at the Pavillon d'Armenonville after her defeat in the second round of the 2022 French presidential election, in Paris, France, April 24, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

PARIS (Reuters) - Marine Le Pen brought the far-right from fringe status into the mainstream in a decade and, unbowed by her third failed bid for the presidency, she promised on Sunday to keep up the fight against Emmanuel Macron as she turns her attention to June's parliamentary vote.

Since taking the helm of the party in 2011, Le Pen has sought to rid the National Front - now called the National Rally (RN) - of the anti-Semitic image it acquired under the nearly 40-year leadership of her father, ex-paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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