Bannon not wanted
Marine Le Pen distances himself from Bannon's help
ROM. The president of the French National Rally Movement (Rassemblement National), Marine Le Pen, has distanced herself from the possibility of Steve Bannon helping with the election campaign. The former chief advisor to US President Donald Trump wants to influence the European elections next year with an office in Brussels and an alliance of various right-wing populist movements.
Bannon is not a European, Le Pen said in the presence of Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini at a conference in Rome, explaining her refusal to cooperate with Bannon, the AP news agency reported. Bannon had given a speech at the Front National party conference in March.
Europeans will save Europe
In June, the Front National renamed itself the National Rally Movement. "We and we alone are the ones who will shape the political power that will come from the European elections," she said to Salvini's applause. It is the people of Europe who will save Europe.
Jérôme Rivière, spokesman for the National Collections Movement, had already told the magazine Politico: "We reject any supranational entity and do not participate in an organisation with Bannon. Bannon replied in an interview with the Swiss magazine Weltwoche: "Rivière will see to it that Politico rectifies this, for he never said anything like this. (tb)
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