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Hoping to repeat his shock 2002 election performance in which he made it to a runoff with President Jacques Chirac, Jean-Marie Le Pen has undergone a major image makeover. Guided by his youngest daughter and campaign strategist, Marine, the leader of the far-right National Front uses softer language to sell more inclusive policies. Although he's currently polling around 13%, French analysts warn that similarly low numbers had preceded his 2002 shock second-place finish. Marine Le Pen discussed her father's evolution and prospects with TIME's Bruce Crumley...
...TIME: What's your projection for Le Pen in the presidential race...
...Pen: We think Jean-Marie Le Pen will again make the runoff. All the elements - and failings - that helped him succeed in 2002 are still present today in even bolder form. French voters understand the politicians who have been in power since the last election have been incapable of solving their problems...
...Pen: No - we'll take whomever the French voters give us. They're all generally the same, especially on a fundamental issue they all agree on and we don't: Europe. As the 2005 defeat of the referendum on the European constitution shows, the French people share our positions, not theirs. Elsewhere, Madame Royal is struggling to lure the extreme left behind her; Sarkozy tries to seduce our voters with Le Pen positions while trying to demonize Le Pen; and Bayrou keeps flipping to the left when attacking the right, then flopping to the right as he takes...
...HILL, author of the thriller novel Heart-Shaped Box, who revealed after 10 years of writing short stories and an unpublished novel under his pen name that he is the elder son of Stephen King...