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Will the Splintering of France's National Front Help or Harm It?

Marine Le Pen’s right-hand man has quit the party, a move that will impact its efforts to rebrand.
Source: Mathieu Cugnot / AP

Marine Le Pen warned recently that big changes were coming to her far-right National Front (FN) party, but she didn’t say they would happen so soon. On Thursday, key aide and FN Vice President Florian Philippot announced his decision to leave the party, in a move he says was prompted by internal divisions.

“They told me that I was the vice president of nothing,” Philippot France 2 Thursday,

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