There are reports surfacing that Marion Maréchal-Le Pen has sent a two page letter announcing her withdrawal from politics to the editor of Le Dauphiné libéré, a provincial daily French newspaper published in Grenoble and known for its emphasis on local news and events. Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, the niece of Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen and one of the far-right party’s only two MPs, is apparently abandoning politics after her aunt’s heavy defeat…

After the first round of the current presidential elections in France Marine Le Pen is to be congratulated on securing her place as one of the candidates to go through to the second round, and her success in this respect will no doubt be cause for much jubilation and speculation by both the chattering classes and also the majority of European nationalists around the world. In the first round, Marine Le Pen has secured the…