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The French losing the demographic war to Islam illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

The French are losing the demographic war

By Don Feder

A man is about to cast his ballot in Sevres, near Paris, France, Sunday, April 24, 2022. France votes in a presidential runoff election Sunday with repercussions for Europe's future, with centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron the front-runner but fighting a tough challenge from far-right contender Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Macron vs Le Pen in French presidential election runoff

By John Leicester - Associated Press

A woman walks by presidential campaign posters in Marseille, southern France, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Marine Le Pen’s vision for France if the far-right leader wins Sunday’s runoff presidential election would include a ban on Muslim headscarves in public, schoolchildren in uniforms and laws passed by referendum. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

Le Pen’s far-right vision: Retooling France at home, abroad

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

French far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen campaigns, Monday, April 18, 2022 in Saint-Pierre-en-Auge, Normandy. French President Emmanuel Macron is facing off against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in France's April 24 presidential runoff. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

France: EU fraud agency investigating candidate Le Pen

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Current French President and centrist presidential candidate for reelection Emmanuel Macron speaks with supporters and medical staff as he visits Alister, a training center for functional rehabilitation, in Mulhouse eastern France, Tuesday, April 12, 2022 . Macron, with strong pro-European views, and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, an anti-immigration nationalist, are facing each other in the presidential runoff on April 24. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

France’s Macron faces angry voters as he fights for 2nd term

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen shakes hands with supporters after delivering a speech at her election day headquarters in Paris, Sunday, April 10, 2022. French polling agency projections show incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen leading in the first round of France's presidential election Sunday. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Macron, Le Pen kick off French presidential runoff campaigns

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

A girl walks past presidential campaign posters at a school working as a polling station for French citizens who living in Chile to vote one day ahead of France's general elections in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Macron challenged by far right as French vote for president

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a campaign rally, Feb. 5, 2022 in Reims, eastern France. Marine Le Pen, 53, is considered Macron's main challenger. Le Pen's plans include the end of family reunification, restricting social benefits to the French only, deporting foreigners who stay unemployed for over a year and other migrants who entered illegally in the country. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Le Pen surges against Macron ahead of French election

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

From left, Geert Wilders, leader of Dutch Party for Freedom, Matteo Salvini, Jörg Meuthen, leader of Alternative For Germany party, and Marine Le Pen, attend a rally organized by League leader Matteo Salvini, with leaders of other European nationalist parties, ahead of the May 23-26 European Parliamentary elections, in Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Poland’s Kaczynski says Le Pen’s party ‘linked to Moscow’

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen steps out of her car to meet French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Marine Le Pen meets President Emmanuel Macron to exchange political issues. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Marine Le Pen sees France yellow vest protesters as National Rally party backers

By Elena Berton — Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, March 10, 2018 file photo, former White House strategist Steve Bannon holds a press conference with National Front party leader Marine Le Pen, right, at the party congress in the northern French city of Lille. Far-right French leader Marine Le Pen has met with former White House strategist Steve Bannon and signaled her interest in his project to help European populist parties _ just days after rejecting assistance from an American. (AP Photo, File)

France’s Le Pen meets Bannon, changes mind on offer to help

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

French President-elect Emmanuel Macron gestures during a victory celebration outside the Louvre museum in Paris, France, Sunday, May 7, 2017. Speaking to thousands of supporters from the Louvre Museum's courtyard, Macron said that France is facing an "immense task" to rebuild European unity, fix the economy and ensure security against extremist threats. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Emmanuel Macron wins French presidency defeats Marine Le Pen

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Supporters of French independent centrist presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron react outside the Louvre museum in Paris, France, Sunday, May 7, 2017. Polling agencies have projected that centrist Emmanuel Macron will be France's next president, putting a 39-year-old political novice at the helm of one of the world's biggest economies and slowing a global populist wave. The agencies projected that Macron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen 65 percent to 35 percent on Sunday. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Joy, relief and rousing Louvre party for France’s Macron

By THOMAS ADAMSON and ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Parisians attended a concert Thursday featuring various artists opposing Marine Le Pen, who faces off in the French presidential runoff Sunday against Emmanuel Macron. (Associated Press)

France minorities on edge over election for president

By Elena Berton - Special to The Washington Times

Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is greeted by workers outside a whirlpool home appliance factory in Amiens, France, Wednesday April 26, 2017. While her centrist presidential opponent Macron was meeting with union leaders from the Whirlpool plant in northern France, Le Pen popped up outside the factory itself, amid its workers and declared herself the candidate of France's workers.(AP Photo)

Marine Le Pen upstages Emmanuel Macron in battle over saving French jobs

By Chris Den Hond and John Leicester - Associated Press

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron greets his supporters as he leaves the restaurant where he met his staff after his election night in Paris, France, Monday, April 24, 2017. Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen advanced Sunday to a runoff in France's presidential election, remaking the country's political system and setting up a showdown over its participation in the European Union. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

The Latest: Israeli president denounces Le Pen’s comments

Associated Press

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, addressing cheering supporters in Paris on Sunday, told them they are "the faces of French hope" and vowed to be a president "who protects, who transforms and builds." The centrist ex-banker who set up his party just a year ago garnered the most votes. (Associated Press)

Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen in runoff for French president

By Elena Berton - Special to The Washington Times

Far-right leader and candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen speaks in Paris, Friday, April 21, 2017, one day after the attack that killed one police officer and wounded three other people. Le Pen campaigns against immigration and Islamic fundamentalism. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Paris terror shows Marine Le Pen, like Donald Trump, is right

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A man walks past electoral posters displaying the presidential candidates, Benoit Hamon, left, Emmanuel Macron, center, and Marine Le Pen in Paris, France, Monday, April 17, 2017. French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen are hoping to bring in big crowds at competing rallies in Paris as the unpredictable race nears its finish. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Donald Trump effect on French election: Anything is possible

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Far-right candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen speaks during a campaign meeting in Monswiller near Strasbourg, eastern France, in this Wednesday, April 5, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, file)

Marine Le Pen criticized for denying French blame in WWII roundup of Jews

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press