Marine Le Pen News

The French Republic woke up this morning with quite a hangover, after the surprising result National Front candidate Marine Le Pen achieved in the first round of France’s 2012 Presidential Election.

Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right Front National party, secured 19 percent of the vote in the first round of the French presidential elections, surpassing her father's shock result in 2002.

Paris - The Telegraph is reporting that French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his Socialist opponent, Francois Hollande, have qualified for the second round of the French Presidential election.

Around 200 Muslims defied the new ban on street prayers introduced yesterday in Paris, France, but more than 2,000 took their prayer mats to the disused barracks provided for prayer, leading Marine Le Pen to claim the government had given into blackmail.

France is reeling tonight from the news that Marine le Pen, the 2012 presidential candidate for the National Front, tops a poll on first-round voting intentions. The result has thrown both Nicolas Sarkozy and the Socialist Party into total disarray.