Far-right Le Pen plots parliament win after loss to Macron

By ELAINE GANLEY
Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is gathering her party’s troops, not to mourn her loss in the presidential election but to plot out a victory in France’s parliamentary election in June. Le Pen lost Sunday to centrist President Emmanuel Macron, who won a second term. Still, she captured her highest-ever level of support, an achievement for a candidate who has for years been seen as too extreme. The vote showed a fractured nation between what Le Pen calls the “France of the forgotten” — the working class — and those who back the staunchly pro-EU Macron.  Le Pen called a national meeting Monday of her far-right National Rally party to chart the way ahead.