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Defeated French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will stand in parliamentary elections in June, her party announced on Thursday, underlining how she intends to remain in frontline politics. The 53-year-old failed in a bid to unseat President Emmanuel Macron last weekend, but achieved 41.4 percent of the vote, up from the 33.9 percent she secured against Macron in 2017. The head of her National Rally (RN) party, Jordan Bardella, confirmed that Le Pen would stand again for her constituency in northern France in parliamentary elections scheduled for 12 and 19 June. “Marine Le Pen wi…