Good Labor Day morning, I’m still reporting on the invasion of Europe. The soon-to-be French presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen promised French voters on Saturday that if elected she will give the French people a “Frexit” vote on leaving the European Union. Le Pen’s National Front party is the only one to promise the groundbreaking vote. Le Pen spoke to a crowd of 700 people in a the small village in northeastern France: “I will do it. Yes, it is possible to change things. Look at the Brits, they chose their destiny, they chose independence. “We can again be a free, proud and independent people.” Last Wednesday, Le Pen, a 48-year-old lawyer and member of the French Parliament, backed Donald Trump in his U.S. presidential run: “What we have in common is that we're not insiders, we are not taking part in the 'system', we depend on no one and do not take our orders from any financial institutions.” Le Pen is a leading foe of illegal immigration into France and favors a: “… radical change of politics in order to drastically reduce upstream the influx of illegal immigrants towards France". She has branded France’s inability to deal with illegal immigration as a: “… state scandal [and an] increasing financial black hole for the French social security system.” She said that Hillary Clinton would bring war and hardship to the world. “I believe Hillary Clinton means war, Hillary Clinton means devastation, destabilising the world, economic choices that would be devastating for my people, geo-strategic choices that would lead to global conflicts." Le Pen advocates France leave the Euro and return to the French Franc. She also believes in a return to French monetary sovereignty and a devaluation of the French Franc which she says will make imports more expensive and therefore stimulate domestic manufacturing. This implies the French nation taking back the money power. She says that this devaluation (increasing the supply of state money into the system) will not bring about inflation and quotes French Economist Alain Cotta in this regard. Le Pen entered the French presidential race in 2012 as a relatively unknown MP but her views rocketed her popularity in the political scene so that in the first round of presidential voting on 22 April 2012 Le Pen polled nearly 18% - about 6.5 million votes – to finish third out of a field of nine. In the French system, the top 2 vote getters then go on to the second round of voting in May. Current opinion polls show Le Pen making in to the final round this time, but losing to a more mainstream candidate. I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
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