Sun 27 March 2022:
Marine Le Pen, a far-right presidential contender, was heckled by demonstrators in the French overseas region of Guadeloupe, who poured into a hotel where she was recording a television program, according to BFM TV.
Protesters chanted “out Le Pen” and “racist Le Pen” as they surrounded the candidate as she was hauled out of the room and through the hotel on Saturday.
Her campaign intends to file a complaint, her spokesman Julien Odoul told Franceinfo.
“This is agitation from extreme left-wing militants, local Black groups who spoil everything, wherever they are active in the territory of the Republic,” he said, referring to an anti-fascist movement that was often blamed for violence at street marches in France during the yellow vest movement.
Opinion polls show Le Pen and President Emmanuel Macron as the likely two candidates to come out top in the first round of the election on April 10 and go through to the April 24 run-off vote, with Macron seen as the eventual winner.
The far-right leader has focused on domestic issues such as inflation and cost of living during a campaign that has been overshadowed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while Macron has been engaged in a flurry of diplomatic meetings, including NATO, G7 and European summits last week.
Le Pen, who has courted controversies over anti-Muslim and anti-refugee hate speeches, has been heading the far-right party since 2011. After taking over the reins from her father Jean-Marie, who originally founded the party then known as Front National in 1972, she renamed it as National Rally.
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