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Ms Marine Le Pen, the National Rally’s leader and leading opponent to French President Emmanuel Macron, denied Russian-loaned money influenced her political positions.
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LONDON – France is looking at adopting a new law that would require non-governmental groups, consultancies and foreigners residing in the country to disclose any involvement with or professional allegiance to foreign governments as part of a crackdown on foreign interference in French electoral processes and political life.
“Foreign interference is a current, real and immediate threat,” claimed Mr Sacha Houlie, president of the Law Committee of France’s National Assembly, the country’s lower parliamentary chamber.
