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France’s Le Pen vows to restore ‘rule of law’ at presidential campaign launch

Agence France-Presse · South China Morning Post
Published 26 Oct 2026, 5:01 am·1 h ago·1 min read
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Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right candidate to succeed President Emmanuel Macron next year, vowed in her first campaign speech on Sunday to “restore the rule of law” if elected next year. Le Pen - the frontrunner in the polls - seems to be benefiting from the convulsions France has been going through for weeks, punctuated by mass cost-of-living rallies and some violent clashes on Saturday and the previous week. “We are going to restore the rule of law,” she said, after looting and arson on the...

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