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When he appeared in the 2017 elections, he destroyed the French party system. Still, he will run for a second term as a rather unpopular president.

The EU must reform or it could face "Frexit," French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has said.

The pro-European candidate, who is expected to "defend European values," spoke for BBC at the start of the last week of campaigning ahead of the runoff against extreme right candidate Marine le Pen.

The EU must reform or it could face "Frexit," French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has said.

The pro-European candidate, who is expected to "defend European values," spoke for BBC at the start of the last week of campaigning ahead of the runoff against extreme right candidate Marine le Pen.

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France's conservative party leader, Nicolas Sarkozy, on Dec. 2 ruled out making any alliance with Francois Hollande's ruling Socialists to stop the increasingly popular far right from winning regional councils in elections this month.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, France's elderly, far-right master provocateur, was booted out of the National Front (FN) he founded on Aug. 20 after a high-profile feud with his daughter and party leader Marine.

France's far-right National Front (FN) on May 3 suspended founder Jean-Marie Le Pen over a string of controversial remarks and amid a deepening feud with his daughter Marine, who now leads the party.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France?s far-right National Front (FN), said April 13 he would not seek its ticket to stand in regional polls, taking some of the sting out of a damaging public row with his daughter Marine, the party?s current leader. 

One Marine was shot to death by a colleague at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina on Tuesday afternoon.

The incident happened at around 5.30 pm on Tuesday.

The Marine who fired the shot from his M4 rifle was detained and is to be questioned by the Naval Criminal Investigative Services, according to reports of the Washington Post.