Living and breathing politics from her youngest years, Le Pen has said her childhood was deeply marked by the explosion of a bomb that destroyed the family apartment when she was eight years old in an incident that remains unsolved.
The French judges' request, signed on March 29 and filed with the prosecutor's office and the justice ministry, is unlikely to be approved by European lawmakers before the election.
Marc Jaurena lives in the northeastern city of Metz but drives almost an hour to work in Luxembourg, 63 kilometres away.
"Patriotism is not a dirty word", he told supporters in the cathedral town of Puy-en-Velay last Saturday - borrowing from the songbook of Ms Le Pen who styles the FN the "party of patriots".
The election has revealed high levels of angst over a perceived erosion of French identity, which Le Pen has pinned on immigration, particularly from Muslim North Africa.
Left-wing candidate Melenchon is on 20% and Mr Fillon trails just one point behind on 19%. Fillon is accused of paying his wife for work she never did, but he's convinced the scandal won't hurt his chances on election day.
Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen criticized President Donald Trump Friday for his sudden embrace of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Paris. The European Union (EU) is facing catastrophe as anti-Brussels parties gain popularity in the French Presidential election, writes Daily Express.
She has dismissed the investigation into the FN's expenses, saying it is a plot to derail her campaign bid. Trump had said in January that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was "obsolete".
He is among the almost 40% of voters who have yet to decide which way they'll vote, or even if they'll show up on election day next Sunday.
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So it seemed a reasonable forecast that Vettel would be quicker and more wily and take a second win for Ferrari. Fernando Alonso joined his McLaren Honda team-mate on the sidelines on lap 34 when he had a driveshaft issue.
"The situation has become too complex to get people engaged".
Those candidates will all compete in the April 23 first-round vote, with the top two vote-getters moving on to the presidential runoff on May 7.
"For me, it's unclear", said 41-year-old Fabrice Blanchard, a commercial agent in Lorraine.
Over the past six years her rebranded "party of patriots" from both left and the right has gone from strength to strength, propelled by the kind of anti-globalisation, anti-establishment fury that drove Britain's vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump's election in the United States.
Polls show that about a third of France's 45.7 million voters might abstain.
For his part Fillon, dogged by a fake jobs scandal that has seen him charged with abuse of public funds, is vowing to pull off a victory that will "surprise the microcosm" arrayed against him. "I am outraged by the scandals". One in three eligible voters are still undecided, which makes the last week of campaigning crucial.
"We must be intransigeant with the mortal danger that fundamentalist Islam represents for our country", she said. "So we grab a lottery ticket while telling ourselves "why not".
"Undeniably he is in contradiction with the commitments he had made", Le Pen said.
While polls suggest the younger Le Pen would also lose in the run-off, they point to a much closer fight this time.
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