{"id":315043,"date":"2017-04-30T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=315043"},"modified":"2017-04-30T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T06:00:09","slug":"france-election-marine-le-pen-would-make-dupont-aignan-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=315043","title":{"rendered":"France election: Marine Le Pen would make Dupont-Aignan PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has said she will make a defeated rival her prime minister, if elected.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Le Pen, of the far-right National Front (FN), chose Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, of the mainstream nationalist &#8220;Stand Up France&#8221; in an apparent bid to attract his voters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dupont-Aignan had already backed Ms Le Pen for the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Le Pen faces centrist Emmanuel Macron in the second, decisive round of voting, which takes place on 7 May.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dupont-Aignan, who got 4.7% in the first round, stood on a platform of leaving the euro and scrapping the European Union, higher ethical standards for elected officials, and focusing on the fight against jihadist terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was time to stop treating Ms Le Pen as untouchable.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Hugh Schofield, in Paris, says the alliance between the two right-wing parties is symbolically important as it is the first time the FN has formed a pact with a mainstream political party.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Le Pen&#8217;s manifesto has been adapted to take in some of her putative prime minister&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>But the new alliance is less likely to appeal to the nearly 20% of French voters who cast their first round ballot for left-winger Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon, correspondents say.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/1423D\/production\/_95839428_163032f1-9a5e-4b2b-8409-474ea00b13f2.jpg\" alt=\"France's President Francois Hollande (centre) and French Junior Minister for European Affairs Harlem Desir in front of flags at summit in Brussels, on April 29, 2017\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><\/figure>\n<p>Outgoing President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, speaking in Brussels at his last EU summit, said the election on 7 May &#8220;is a European choice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The French have everything to gain by staying in the European Union,&#8221; he told reporters gathered at the summit to discuss the UK leaving the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has said she will make a defeated rival her prime minister, if elected. Ms Le Pen, of the far-right National Front (FN), chose Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, of the mainstream nationalist &#8220;Stand Up France&#8221; in an apparent bid to attract his voters. Mr Dupont-Aignan had already backed Ms Le Pen for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[3,6521],"class_list":["post-315043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-ghana-news","tag-le-pen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}