France elections: Le Pen 'steps aside' as party leader

[MissZoey]

[QUOTE]Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has announced that she will step down as leader of her National Front (FN) party.
The move comes just a day after she reached the second round of the French election, where she will face Centrist Emmanuel Macron.
"This evening I decided to take my leave of the presidency of the National Front," she told TV channel France 2.
"I will be above partisan considerations."
It is not clear if her decision will be permanent. She told France 2 that France is approaching a "decisive moment".
Ms Le Pen took over the FN leadership from her father in January 2011 and helped her party secure big gains in regional elections.
She won 7.6 million votes on Sunday - the strongest ever result for a FN candidate, and 2.8 million more than her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, won in 2002.
Her party wants to slash immigration, clamp down on free trade, and overturn France's relationship with Europe.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39696861[/url]

[Ganerumo]

She'll be replaced by another Le Pen. There's a fucking ton of them inside of the party already.

[BlackMageMari]

Does this help her chances or lower her chances at Presidency?

[Thelurker1234]

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52145377]Does this help her chances or lower her chances at Presidency?[/QUOTE]

I think it'll help her, but not by much.

Her party is much more vile than she herself is.

Really one of the worst things for France is that even if they do wind up denying her the presidency, FN will still get a large amount of legislative seats.

[Jamsponge]

From what I've read online (not certain though, my French isn't perfect and French news can be difficult to decipher when you're not too familiar with it), it seems like Le Pen is temporarily taking leave so she can focus on the campaign trail. I imagine this would be extended if she became the President of France, as the Front National (unlike movements such as Macron's En Marche! and Mélenchon's La France Insoumise) is an actual political party, so leadership involves actual work, which she probably doesn't want to do right now.

[Thelurker1234]

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;52146273]From what I've read online (not certain though, my French isn't perfect and French news can be difficult to decipher when you're not too familiar with it), it seems like Le Pen is temporarily taking leave so she can focus on the campaign trail. I imagine this would be extended if she became the President of France, as the Front National (unlike movements such as Macron's En Marche! and Mélenchon's La France Insoumise) is an actual political party, so leadership involves actual work, which she probably doesn't want to do right now.[/QUOTE]
En Marche plans on running candidates for the later parliamentary elections as well, so it's sort of a real party if that's what you mean.

But you know that actually is a fairly good reason. Leave and let others do that work.

edit: Same with Melenchon's party too actually.