A Marine Le Pen Aide Leaves Far-Right Party<br />Nicolas Lebourg said that Marine Le Pen has been having a hard time accepting that the National Front is at the right of the political spectrum,<br />Le Pen, in 2009, as a kind of political love at first sight and said<br />that they "connected both on a human and a political level." After his departure, National Front officials blamed Mr. Philippot for refusing to discuss a change in strategy ahead of a party congress set for March.<br />t who was trying to muzzle our freedom to debate." But Mr. Philippot said the party’s "reconstruction" was "going badly." "In reality, it was hiding a terrible step backward," he told France 2.<br />that will finally experience a return to calm after facing a sectarian, arrogant and conceited extremis<br />21, 2017<br />PARIS — A top aide to the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen announced on Thursday<br />that he was leaving her National Front party, the latest sign of turmoil in the organization as it struggles to recover from her defeat in the presidential election this year.<br />Florian Philippot, the National Front’s vice president in charge of communications and strategy since 2012, told the France 2 television channel<br />that he was leaving the post after weeks of tensions with other party officials over the reasons for her defeat and the strategy going ahead.<br />Davy Rodriguez De Oliveira, a deputy leader of the National Front’s youth section, said<br />that although the unit had grown to 25,000 members while Mr. Philippot was helping to reshape party strategy, young members would not quit the National Front.<br />that A return of a National Front caught up by its old demons.
