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Ania Nussbaum

French far-right leader Le Pen shores up campaign with loan

PARIS — The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen finally secured a bank loan for her financially struggling campaign to challenge President Emmanuel Macron.

The candidate in the April presidential election obtained a 10.6 million euro loan ($11.8 million) from a European bank, Jordan Bardella, president of her National Rally party, told Agence France-Presse.

A spokeswoman for Le Pen didn’t immediately respond to a question about which bank provided the loan.

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