Le Pen Accused of Plagiarising Parts of Fillon’s Speech

by Gregory Viscusi  Bloomberg, May 2, 2017 - French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen used chunks of a speech by defeated centre-right nominee Francois Fillon, word-for-word, during a rally, in what her campaign said was an attempt to lure the former prime minister’s voters.  

At a rally Monday in Paris, Le Pen went off on an ode to France’s geography, and how it links the country to cultures from around the world from “the immense Hispanic and Latin world” to “Italy our sister,” and then boasted about how people from Mexico to Shanghai seek to learn French.