France's Le Pen launches presidential bid as protests rattle the nation
Le Pen promised tougher immigration controls and lower living costs as polling shows her benefiting from unrest and rising anger over Macron’s government.
- On Sunday, October 25, 2026, Marine Le Pen, far-right National Rally presidential candidate, launched her campaign in Orléans before 8,500 supporters, vowing to "restore the rule of law" despite an appeals-court graft conviction.
- Nationwide protests over rising living costs drew more than 400,000 people on Saturday, October 24, 2026, with violence erupting on demonstration fringes; Interior Minister Laurent Nunez attributed the resulting 1,300+ arrests to "ultra-left" extremists.
- National Rally leader Jordan Bardella secured 98.98% of the vote for re-election, formalizing a "winning ticket" strategy where Bardella manages party operations while Le Pen focuses on the presidential race.
- Framing her platform as a path to "national rebirth," Le Pen promised "zero tolerance" policing, "double borders," and automatic deportation of foreign offenders convicted of crimes.
- Ipsos polling suggests Le Pen would secure 32–34% of first-round votes in the 2027 presidential election, with surveys indicating she would easily defeat hard-left rival Jean-Luc Melenchon in a run-off ballot.
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After the riots in France Marine Le Pen wins in polls. At a party congress of the "Rassemblement National" (RN) in Orléans she officially opens the election campaign.
French far-right politician Marine Le Pen has launched her campaign ahead of next year's presidential election, vowing to "restore the rule of law." As violence erupted amidst large-scale protests against educational conditions and the cost of living, she is rallying her supporters by emphasizing security and order. According to AFP, Le Pen 2
Orleans. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen of the National Group Party (RN), a favorite for next year’s presidential election, officially launched her campaign in Orleans yesterday with the promise to restore order and national confidence, while polls put the extreme-left candidate of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in second place.
The leader of the French Party National Association and presidential candidate Marín Le Pen stated at the first campaign rally in Orleans that she intended to defend France against the backdrop of protests and growing economic problems, and that Marín Le Pen had held the first major campaign rally in Orleans in the 2027 election of the President of France, had abandoned the image of radical protest politics and had presented herself as the guard…
The leader of the French right-wing extreme, Marine Le Pen, launched his campaign in Orleans on Sunday for the presidential elections next year. In a speech focused on security, immigration and economics, it promised the restoration of public order and the restoration of confidence in France's future.
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