Three years ago, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was warned that her National Front party would be at financial risk unless its lawmakers could squeeze more funding from the European Parliament.
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Member of the European Parliament and leader of the far-right Front National (FN) party and candidate for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen (C) salutes European Parliament MP and member of the Netherlands' Party for Freedom (PVV) Marcel De Graaff (L), upon her arrival for a voting session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on April 5.