{"id":19603,"date":"2015-06-30T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19603"},"modified":"2015-07-01T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T08:07:54","slug":"marine-le-pen-announces-candidature-for-northern-region-takes-lead-in-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19603","title":{"rendered":"Marine Le Pen announces candidature for Northern region, takes lead in polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Le Pen has announced her candidature in the\u00a0Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region in the north of France during elections to be held on 6 and 13 December 2015, assuming a lead in the polls. If she is successful, her party, the Front National, will control an entire region in France for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>According to an opinion poll for Le Figaro &#8211; LCI which was conducted by OpinionWay, she will win both the first and second rounds of the election, finishing with 5 percentage points more than her immediate, centrist rival, Xavier Bertrand of The Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie used to be a Socialist area, but with rising joblessness and the problems with a refugee camp in the coastal town of Calais, support for the the Socialist Party has waned, with many voters\u00a0now placing their hopes for a better life in Marine Le Pen&#8217;s Front National.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing her candidature, Le Pen said that she could &#8220;immediately make a difference on the regional level and on the national level a bit later&#8221;, referring to her ambition to become the French president during the election of 2017. Asked why she hesitated until today to announce her candidature in the region, she said that &#8220;many people thought\u00a0that my regional candidacy would clash with my presidential candidacy&#8221; but that she felt it imcumbent upon her to get involved in the &#8220;great and beautiful region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fig-article-body\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Le Pen has announced her candidature in the\u00a0Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region in the north of France during elections to be held on 6 and 13 December 2015, assuming a lead in the polls. If she is successful, her party, the Front National, will control an entire region in France for the first time. According to an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marine Le Pen announces candidature for Northern region, takes lead in polls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":19615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[534,2821,12036,12037],"class_list":["post-19603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-france","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-nord-pas-de-calais-picardie","tag-regional-elections"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/marinelepen2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19617,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions\/19617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}