Marine Le Pen has received a 100-percent mandate to continue as the leader of the National Front Party, as the far-right party’s links with Russia become obvious.
Russia is said to be providing funding to many European ultranationalist movements - the National Front being just one of them. Its leader has a good chance of reaching the second round of the presidential elections to be held in France in 2017.
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