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Le Pen loses ground after state employee comments

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PARIS: An apparent threat by far-right leader Marine le Pen to punish state employees who “persecute” political opponents may have eroded her support, according to a poll which found her first-round lead in France’s presidential election slipping. The poll of voting intentions by research firm BVA found Le Pen garnering 26 per cent of the votes in April’s first round, down 1.5 per cent from the last BVA poll on February 23. BVA said Le Pen had likely lost support because of comments at a rally in Nantes last week in which she appeared to threaten to punish government employees who would “persecute” political opponents. “I want to tell public sector workers who are asked by a desperate political staff to use the powers of the state to keep tabs on opponents, to organise persecution, low blows and state cabals against them, to keep out of participating in such excesses,” she said. —  Reuters


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