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		</div><p>The leader of France&#8217;s far-right National Front set the tone for her campaign for the French presidency on Saturday, calling to fight an Islamist &#8220;offensive&#8221; and promising to hold a nationwide referendum on European Union membership if she is elected next spring.</p>
<p>At a rally in a small eastern village, Marine Le Pen focused on her favourite issues, such as national sovereignty, immigration control, Islamism and what she calls &#8220;savage globalisation&#8221;.</p>
<p>The far-right candidate for the April-May election pledged to back the &#8220;France of the forgotten, the abandoned and the voiceless&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ms Le Pen, who announced her presidential bid months ago, delivered her annual speech in Brachay, a hamlet of a few dozen inhabitants and the French municipality where she symbolically won the largest share of votes in the last election.</p>
<p>Along with the economy, the relationship between France&#8217;s Muslims and non-Muslims has been a recurring theme as presidential hopefuls have kicked off their campaigns.</p>
<p>Ms Le Pen claimed she was right before all other presidential hopefuls because her traditional issues are now at the centre of the political debate and have found a &#8220;considerable resonance&#8221; among French voters.</p>
<p>Some politicians on the left say she is using the issue to encourage racism in France, yet polls suggest that she is increasingly likely to make it to the run-off in the presidential election.</p>
<p>Following the British precedent, Ms Le Pen promised to hold a nationwide referendum on whether France should leave or remain in the European Union if she is elected president.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will do it in France,&#8221; she said and hailed the British who had &#8220;the courage to choose their destiny&#8221; by voting to leave the EU.</p>
<p>Referring to the controversy over local French bans on the burkini swimwear, she denounced a &#8220;relegation of women behind fabrics&#8221; and said that women should have the same right as men &#8220;to enjoy the French way of life on the beach and at school, in the street and at work&#8221;.</p>
<p>She said she fears &#8220;dress segregation&#8221; will eventually pave the way for a &#8220;physical and legal&#8221; relegation of women.</p>
<p>&#8220;When are we going to have a ban on make-up? Then a ban (for women) to appear in public?&#8221; she asked.</p>
<p>The National Front leader also accused former French conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy, one of her potential presidential opponents, of pledging allegiance to a hard-line branch of Islam after he reportedly met the Saudi King in Morocco last month.</p>
<p>Ms Le Pen branded the rise of Islamic fundamentalism as the &#8220;new totalitarianism of the 21st century&#8221; and suggested terrorists were hiding among migrants.<br />
&#8220;The best weapon against terrorism is the ballot,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Since January 2015, Islamic State group-inspired attackers have killed at least 235 people in France.</p>
<p>French citizens or French-speaking residents have committed the overwhelming majority of strikes, often employing suicide tactics alongside command of their home surroundings.</p>
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Why am I not surprised? France is falling apart and needs a new leader.
Expect a landslide if it’s not rigged and then wait years for it happen.