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Marine Le Pen could become next French president, says interior minister

Marine Le Pen delivers a Bastille Day speech at a ceremony in northern France
Marine Le Pen delivers a Bastille Day speech at a ceremony in northern France last month. Photograph: Francois Greuez/SIPA/Shutterstock

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen could win the next presidential election in 2027, the interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, has said, as he positions himself as a potential candidate for the centre-right.

“The fact of the matter is that in five years’ time, a victory for Madame Le Pen is quite probable,” Darmanin told La Voix du Nord, in an interview published on Friday.

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