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French National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen (R) says goodbye to his daughter Marine after a conference in Lomme, Northern France May 30, 2002. Marine Le Pen is candidate in the
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Far-right National Front leader and candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen answers the medias after he casts his ballot at a polling station in Saint-Cloud, on April 22, 2007, for the first round of
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French extreme right National Front party leader Jean-Marie le Pen addresses supporters at his campaign headquarters in Saint Cloud near Paris, April 21, 2002 after beating French socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin
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