France’s Le Pen hails ‘new world’ after Trump win

Donald Trump’s US election victory heralds the “building of a new world,” France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen says Sunday in a BBC television interview.

Le Pen describes the Republican’s win as a “victory of the people against the elite” and says she hoped a similar outcome can be achieved in French presidential elections in May.

President of the French far-right party and presidential candidate for the 2017 French Presidential elections Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a press conference on november 9, 2016 in the party headquarters in Nanterre, near Paris, following the victory by US Republican candidate Donald Trump in US presidential elections.(AFP PHOTO / Martin BUREAU)
President of the French far-right party and presidential candidate for the 2017 French presidential elections Marine Le Pen delivers a speech on November 9, 2016 in the party headquarters in Nanterre, near Paris (AFP PHOTO / Martin BUREAU)

“Clearly, Donald Trump’s victory is an additional stone in the building of a new world, destined to replace the old one,” she tells the BBC.

Trump “made possible what had previously been presented as impossible,” she say, predicting that the “global revolution” that resulted in his election, as well as in the vote for Brexit, will also see her elected as president.

AFP

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