Far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen on Saturday said she was eager for France's presidential election campaign to start, portraying herself as the "candidate of the people" and mocking her opponents' primaries as cockfights. Opinion polls consistently show the anti-immigration, anti-EU Le Pen making it to the second round of the 2017 election. "I'm very relaxed, impatient to start this presidential campaign," Le Pen told reporters. Rachline and her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen both told Reuters that the party's campaign would only fully start once those two primaries are over. Rachline said Le Pen would focus on asking voters "whether France must or no regain its independence" and "whether it will, or not, let radical Islam grow."

Source: Egypt Independent September 17, 2016 12:56 UTC