A Marine Le Pen Aide Leaves Far-Right Party
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A Marine Le Pen Aide Leaves Far-Right Party
Nicolas Lebourg said that Marine Le Pen has been having a hard time accepting that the National Front is at the right of the political spectrum,
Le Pen, in 2009, as a kind of political love at first sight and said
that they "connected both on a human and a political level." After his departure, National Front officials blamed Mr. Philippot for refusing to discuss a change in strategy ahead of a party congress set for March.
t who was trying to muzzle our freedom to debate." But Mr. Philippot said the party’s "reconstruction" was "going badly." "In reality, it was hiding a terrible step backward," he told France 2.
that will finally experience a return to calm after facing a sectarian, arrogant and conceited extremis
21, 2017
PARIS — A top aide to the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen announced on Thursday
that he was leaving her National Front party, the latest sign of turmoil in the organization as it struggles to recover from her defeat in the presidential election this year.
Florian Philippot, the National Front’s vice president in charge of communications and strategy since 2012, told the France 2 television channel
that he was leaving the post after weeks of tensions with other party officials over the reasons for her defeat and the strategy going ahead.
Davy Rodriguez De Oliveira, a deputy leader of the National Front’s youth section, said
that although the unit had grown to 25,000 members while Mr. Philippot was helping to reshape party strategy, young members would not quit the National Front.
that A return of a National Front caught up by its old demons.
Nicolas Lebourg said that Marine Le Pen has been having a hard time accepting that the National Front is at the right of the political spectrum,
Le Pen, in 2009, as a kind of political love at first sight and said
that they "connected both on a human and a political level." After his departure, National Front officials blamed Mr. Philippot for refusing to discuss a change in strategy ahead of a party congress set for March.
t who was trying to muzzle our freedom to debate." But Mr. Philippot said the party’s "reconstruction" was "going badly." "In reality, it was hiding a terrible step backward," he told France 2.
that will finally experience a return to calm after facing a sectarian, arrogant and conceited extremis
21, 2017
PARIS — A top aide to the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen announced on Thursday
that he was leaving her National Front party, the latest sign of turmoil in the organization as it struggles to recover from her defeat in the presidential election this year.
Florian Philippot, the National Front’s vice president in charge of communications and strategy since 2012, told the France 2 television channel
that he was leaving the post after weeks of tensions with other party officials over the reasons for her defeat and the strategy going ahead.
Davy Rodriguez De Oliveira, a deputy leader of the National Front’s youth section, said
that although the unit had grown to 25,000 members while Mr. Philippot was helping to reshape party strategy, young members would not quit the National Front.
that A return of a National Front caught up by its old demons.