[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] La Belle France’s far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday met for the first time with a foreign head of state, holding talks in Beirut with Leb’s President Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
"We discussed the long and fruitful friendship between our two countries," the National Front (FN) leader said after her 30-minute encounter at the presidential palace in the hilltop suburb of Baabda with Aoun.
Le Pen, who is leading polls of voters’ intentions for the first round of La Belle France’s presidential election on April 23, said they also discussed the refugee crisis in Leb, where more than one million Syrians have fled their country’s conflict, making up one in four of the Lebanese population.
"We raised... the concerns we share over the very serious refugee crisis," she said. "These difficulties are being overcome by the courage and generosity of Leb but this cannot go on forever."