article_snippet.sent: National Front leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie
article_snippet.sent: And yesterday, Marine Le Pen (left) was quoted as calling France's Spanish-born Prime Minister Manuel .
article_snippet.sent: Valls 'the immigrant' and defending Philippe Petain, leader of .
article_snippet.sent: Marine Le Pen (left) seems to have descended into a strategy .
article_snippet.sent: Le Pen, who took over the party from her father ( in 2011. '
article_snippet.sent: Marine Le Pen (left) has tried to rid the party of .
article_snippet.sent: a bid for the French presidency in 2017.
article_snippet.sent: Marine Le Pen (left) already distanced her from her last .
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday, Marine Le Pen (left) was quoted as calling France's Spanish-born Prime Minister Manuel Valls (right)  'the immigrant' and defending Philippe Petain, leader of the war-time government that cooperated with Nazi Germany (left) '
article_snippet.sent: Under Ms Le Pens leadership, Ms Le Pen's party has deepened Ms Le Pen's party roots across France, winning outright control of some town halls and getting Ms Le Pen's party officials elected onto the councils of 'departements', broadly the equivalent of counties.