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Business Matters: Le Pen Steps Aside As National Front Leader

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Le Pen Steps Aside As National Front Leader

25/04/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Le Pen Steps Aside As National Front Leader

Marine Le Pen told French TV she needed to be above partisan considerations.

The rival candidates in France's presidential run off have been setting out their strategies. Marine Le Pen's latest move has been to step down as leader of the National Front, 'to be above partisan considerations'. We hear from Mrs Le Pen's advisor, Jean Messiha, on her plans for France's economy. The BBC's Susannah Streeter has been gauging reaction on the streets of France to yesterday's first round election. We get the perspective of Sophie Pedder from The Economist in Paris and Pierre Gatass, President of the French employers federation MEDEF tells us how the business community is responding.

President Trump's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border is threatening to shut down the US federal government. It has become the most contentious issue in discussions about the US budget, between the White House and Congress. John Hudak, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC tells us what's going on.

All this and more discussed with our two guests on opposite sides of the world: Simon Littlewood, President of AC Growth Delivered in Singapore and Brad Stone in Los Angeles, a journalist at Bloomberg and author of a new book on disruptive technology companies.

(Photo: French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party, Marine Le Pen. Credit: Getty Images.)

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