National Front, the French far-right political party led by Marine Le Pen, will change its name and refocus on immigration in an effort to attract more support from voters, according to a Reuters report Monday. Le Pen, who lost last year’s French presidential election to Emmanuel Macron, is expected to unveil the new name when the party meets on March 10-11. The party is also set to move away from its stance against the euro, the European Union’s common currency, as that’s been a turnoff for voters, the report said. “We’re keeping our fundamentals, our basis: security, immigration,” National Front lawmaker and party spokesman Sebastien Chenu told Reuters. The report arrived after euroskeptic, populist parties in Italy performed better than anticipated in Sunday’s general election.
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