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France: Le Pen seeks to leverage unrest in presidential campaign kick-off
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally, addressed some 10,000 supporters on Sunday in the city of Orleans as she kicked off her presidential campaign, a day after nationwide cost-of-living protests flared again into violence.
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All three outlets focus on Marine Le Pen’s campaign launch in Orléans and on the backdrop of unrest in France. France 24 repeatedly foregrounds the event itself, with several updates on her speech to about 10,000 supporters, while the South China Morning Post emphasizes her status in the polls and her promise to “restore the rule of law.” Channel 4 News is the most explicitly political, framing the launch as part of a potentially epochal election and the far right’s possible path to power.
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