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EU Economic Collapse Leads to French National Front’s Rise – Le Pen's Aide

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The failure of European Union economic policy is the reason of the rise of National Front party in France, Marine Le Pen's adviser told Sputnik.

Marine Le Pen, France's National Front political party leader, waves as she attends the far-right party's congress in Lyon November 29, 2014 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front party owes its huge support with the French to its clear-cut agenda on immigration, Islamization and the EU’s economic woes, Le Pen’s adviser on European affairs told Sputnik on Monday.

"We are talking about massive immigration, insecurity, the failure of European Union policy, the fact that economy is collapsing," Ludovic de Danne, Marine Le Pen's European affairs adviser and member of the party's political bureau, said.

On Sunday, France voted in local elections that saw the National Front come second with 25 percent of votes. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP managed to edge ahead of Le Pen's party after opinion polls showed it to be in the lead.

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The National Front has been increasingly Eurosceptic, vowing to transform the country's lagging economy.

De Danne stressed France has "a structural problem with the euro, because we don't have flexibility, necessary for economy," and accused an "ultra-liberal ideology" of destroying small and medium-sized enterprises and industries.

De Danne emphasized that Le Pen "challenges Islamization and not Islam," and praised her for a very "balanced and intelligent point of view" on matters that have split the nation following the Islamist attacks in Paris in January.

French politician Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front will bring up immigration and economic insecurity as the central points in her 2017 presidential campaign, her adviser on European affairs told Sputnik on Monday.

"I would say that it's going to be massive campaign; it's not just immigration and insecurity, its economic aspects of our program as well," Ludovic de Danne, Marine Le Pen's European affairs adviser and member of the party's political bureau, said.

De Danne added many more issues would be raised during the campaign. There are many things that need to be put right as the situation in the country is "terrible," he said, citing growing unemployment, poverty and insecurity.

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