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Now playing Next France Le Pen gets tough on Europe in French presidential campaign launch Taking the top spot in her list of 144 election pledges is ‘the return of France’s sovereignty’. 05/02/2017
Now playing Next France French election campaigns heating up A rundown of three French presidential candidate's rallies which all took place this weekend in Lyon. 05/02/2017