French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen named the defeated first-round candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan as her prime minister if she is elected president, in a bid to attract his voters and help her beat favourite Emmanuel Macron. The 56-year-old Dupont-Aignan and his party Debout la France (‘Stand up France’) secured 4.7 percent (1.7 million ) in the first round of the presidential elections on April 23, coming in sixth out of the original 11 candidates. Dupont-Aignan calls himself a “Gaullist” – after France’s wartime leader General Charles de Gaulle – a term that is meant to evoke sovereignty, patriotism and economic independence. Essentially, his party is an offshoot of the conservative mainstream right. The former candidate strongly favours France leaving the European Union and the Eurozone; even going so far as to support Britain’s divorce from the European Union. “The French understand that the stakes in this election are to re-orient Europe” away from globalisation, said Dupont-Aignan during a televised debate on April 4. About face on the far-right Dupont-Aignan is less hardline than Le Pen in some areas such as reintroduction of the death penalty. Furthermore, in 2013 he said on Twitter that his party “cannot align ourselves with