Antisemitism allegations affect Le Pen campaign
PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, her National Rally party and its allies closed ranks Tuesday behind her running mate in next year’s presidential election, Jordan Bardella, in the face of media accusations that he made antisemitic remarks as a young party member. The 31-year-old Bardella, who Le Pen says will be her prime minister if she wins the presidency in May, vigorously denied authorship of the comments about supposed Jewish banking monopolies and other antisemitic conspiracy theories that investigative website Mediapart attributed to him and published ...
