French banks are refusing to give far-right leader Marine Le Pena loan to help fund her presidential campaign.
The leader of the French nationalist party National Front is struggling to obtain bank loans to finance her campaign, set to start in February, due to what a senior party official has described as “discrimination based on political opinion”.
National Front Secretary General Nicolas Bay told Europe 1 radio on Thursday the party required a loan of around €27 million (£23 million), but that French banks were refusing to "play the game of democracy" .... http://www.independent.co.uk
