- Title: FRANCE: NATIONAL FRONT LEADER JEAN MARIE LE PEN CAMPAIGNS IN TOULON
- Date: 20th May 1997
- Summary: TOULON, FRANCE (MAY 20, 1997) 1. LV/CU ELECTION POSTERS (5 SHOTS) 0.29 2. LV/CU EXT OPERA HOUSE (6 SHOTS) 1.09 3. LV/SV ANTI-FN MARCH (4 SHOTS) 1.40 4. SCU UNIDENTIFIED MARCHER EXPLAINING THAT THEY ARE SHOWING THEIR CONTEMPT FOR THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT VIEWS OF THE FN (FRENCH) 1.58 5. LV MORE OF DEMONSTRATION 2.11
- Embargoed: 4th June 1997 13:00
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- Location: TOULON, FRANCE
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- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVAE2EINOSZ4Z8AFNVYFOFD7ZWU9
- Story Text: INTRO: National Front (FN) leader Jean Marie Le Pen took his campaign to the southern French city of Toulon Tuesday night (May 2), to try to replicate in the legislative elections what the party achieved in Toulon municipal elections, when Toulon became the first city in France with a National Front mayor.
Outside the rally, some 3,000 demonstrators marched peacefully to oppose the anti-immigrant policies of the FN.
Inside the Toulon Opera House, Le Pen accused French President Jacques Chirac of driving France towards a diminsihed role in a federal Europe.
He said Chirac would turn the lauded office of French president into a minor governorship, like that of Alabama or Texas in the United States.
Le Pen told the sell-out audience, at which every supporter paid 30 francs, that immigrants would not be driven out of the country by force, but that they would leave voluntarily after state aid was drastically reduced.
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