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The president of the French far-right National Front (FN) party, Marine Le Pen, flanked by her companion Louis Aliot (R), waits prior to a press conference on May 12, 2012 in the French southwestern city of Perpignan. Le Pen said that the candidacy of the president of the far-left Left Front party, Jean-Luc Melenchon, in the 11th constituency in the northern Pas-de-Calais department, which includes Le Pen’s stronghold town of Henin-Beaumont, for the June 2012 French parliamentary election was a secondary phenomenon. AFP PHOTO / RAYMOND ROIG