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    Le Pen, Putin, Trump: a disturbing axis, or just a mutual admiration society?

    The French presidential hopeful has made no secret of her admiration for Russia’s strongman leader, but her relationship with Trump is less clearcut
    by Jon Henley European affairs correspondent May 17, 2017 4 minutes
    NICE, FRANCE - APRIL 27: Front Party Leader and Presidential Candidate Marine Le Pen salutes the crowd as she arrives for a political meeting on April 27, 2017 in Nice, France. Le Pen is campaigning against En Marche Founder and Leader Emmanuel Macron for the next round of the French Presidential Elections on May 7. (Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images)

    The week after Donald Trump won the US presidential election last November, Marine Le Pen was inaugurating the headquarters of her own election campaign in Paris, less than a mile from the Elysée Palace she hopes to move into soon.

    The far-right, anti-immigration Front National leader had been the only French political leader to back Trump in his bid for the White House. She has also made no secret of her admiration for Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.

    Unveiling her campaign symbol, a blue rose, she said that her election as France’s president would form a trio of world leaders that “will be good for world peace”, leading “a worldwide movement that rejects unchecked globalisation, destructive ultra-liberalism, the elimination of nation states, the

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