Anti-Immigration French Candidate Sticks to Patriotic Strategy

Anti-Immigration French Candidate Sticks to Patriotic Strategy
Far-right leader and candidate for next spring presidential elections Marine le Pen rides a horse as she visits the annual Horse Fair in Villepinte, outside Paris, on Dec. 2, 2016. AP Photo/Michel Euler
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PARIS—French anti-immigration presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says the spring election will pit nationalists and patriots like herself against those in favor of globalization, the European Union and immigration.

Speaking Friday at an annual horse fair outside of Paris—where she donned a cowboy hat and mounted a horse—Le Pen said Socialist President Francois Hollande’s decision not to seek a second term won’t change her strategy. Hollande made the announcement late Thursday.