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Radio 4,24 Apr 2017,45 mins

Le Pen 'will be President for all French people'

The World Tonight

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Marine Le Pen says she's stepping aside as leader of the far-right National Front party as she runs against Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the French Presidential Elections. Jaimie Coomarasamy is live from Paris with all the latest on an election that has divided France and has seen the electorate abandon all the traditional parties of left and right. Plus we have a report from the military base in Afghanistan where scores of soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack. And as the Conservatives decide silence is golden, despite the election, we ask a former Tory press chief: can not saying much be an effective election strategy? Picture: The French Presidential Election results, on a TV screen Copyright: Getty Images.

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