ROME — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is distancing herself from former White House strategist Steve Bannon, saying only Europeans will save the continent.
Le Pen says Monday, at a meeting in Rome, that she wants to clarify “lots of conjecture” about Bannon’s reported plans to set up a foundation, The Movement, to boost far-right parties in Europe.
Le Pen says Bannon is not European, but rather an American who wants to create a think tank.
She says: “But we, and we alone, are the ones who will shape the political force that is born from the European elections, because we are attached to our liberty, attached to our sovereignty and we together, the representatives of the different peoples of Europe, are the ones who will shape the political forces that aim specifically to save Europe.”
— AP
National Front party leader Marine Le Pen, right, and former White House strategist Steve Bannon hold a press conference at the party congress in the northern French city of Lille, on March 10, 2018 (AP Photo)
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