France's Le Pen predict election 'surprise'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen predicted an "enormous surprise" in the first round of France's two-round presidential election in April. Le Pen, who shocked France and Europe by coming in second place behind incumbent President Jacques Chirac in the last election in 2002, said support for his presidential campaign was growing day by day. "I feel a silent but enormous wave of indignation, of protest. It's a tsunami," Le Pen, who heads the anti-immigration National Front party, told a gathering of supporters Saturday near the northern city of Rouen. He added he was expecting an "enormous surprise" in the first round of voting, on April 22.