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Others argue blond-haired Le Pen is benefitting from a blizzard of media attention since she took over the National Front's presidency from her 82-year-old father this year.

France's Far-Right Candidate Leads Presidency Poll 2011

The younger Le Pen presents a softer, younger face to the National Front's tough, anti-crime, anti-Europe and anti-immigration platform.

France's Far-Right Candidate Leads Presidency Poll 2011

Mr. Najib, the 58-year-old aristocratic son of Malaysia's second prime minister, became the country's leader in 2009 and set about trying to reassert the National Front's dominance.

Anwar Assails Malaysian Officials, Court James Hookway 2011

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A Supporter of Zambia's Opposition Patritotic Front's Leader Michael Sata holds a placard as he is carried by the crowd in a bathtub during a rally in the district of Mandevu in Lusaka on September 15, 2011.

In Zambia Election, the Big Issue Is China Peter Wonacott 2011

Ken Fallin But it would be a mistake to blame the National Front's victory last weekend entirely on public concern for its pet issue.

Sarkozy's Last Chance Nicolas Lecaussin 2011

Mr. Anwar was arrested and charged with sodomy in 2008, a few months after his three-party opposition alliance won control of several key states in hotly contested elections and broke the ruling National Front's customary two-thirds hold on Parliament.

Anwar Assails Malaysian Officials, Court James Hookway 2011

After Mr. Anwar's opposition alliance broke the ruling National Front's traditional two-thirds majority in 2008's parliamentary elections, a former male aide accused the opposition leader of sodomy.

Malaysia Video Raises an Outcry James Hookway 2011

The National Front's mandate expires in mid-2013 but many analysts expect elections to be called by next year.

Malaysia fires tear gas at protest, arrests thousands 2011

Even now, the National Front's Marine le Pen remains ahead of Sarkozy in the polls.

Rich pickings from living off the fat of the land | Catherine Bennett 2011

He is being squeezed between a resurgent Socialist party and Marine Le Pen, Eurosceptic daughter of the National Front's long-term leader Jean Marie, who has reheated his brew of Poujadist populism and xenophobic nationalism, and is finding plenty of takers.

Eurozone: Cut to the core | Editorial 2012