FILE - In this Tuesday, April 11, 2017 file photo, Far right National Front party regional leader for southeastern France Marion Marechal-Le Pen waves during a press conference in Bayonne, southwestern France. The niece of defeated far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen announced Tuesday, May 9 that she's leaving political life, at least temporarily, citing "personal and political reasons." Marion Marechal-Le Pen had been seen as a rising star of the nationalist and anti-immigration National Front party. She is one of two lawmakers in the outgoing lower house of parliament affiliated with the party. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, file)
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PARIS (AP) - The disintegration of France's political landscape, torn up by the presidential election victory of Emmanuel Macron, is picking up speed by the day.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen, the niece of defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, is quitting politics, depriving their National Front party of one its few real stars. Marine Le Pen tweeted Wednesday her regret at the decision.
Having campaigned together in the presidential election, parties on the other extreme on the far left are divorcing.
From holding power, through outgoing President Francois Hollande and his majority in the outgoing parliament, the Socialist Party is tumbling ever deeper into disarray. The mainstream right is torn between wanting to work with Macron and wanting to clip the new president's wings.
The statuette portraying newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron is on display in a shop at San Gregorio Armeno street in Naples, southern Italy, Tuesday, May 92017. Via San Gregorio Armeno is a street famous for its shops selling hand-crafted nativity scenes and all kind of painted figurines and statuettes. (Cesare Abbate/ANSA via AP)
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FILE - In this April 8, 2015 file photo, then French prime minister Manuel Valls, right, speaks with then economy minister Macron during in Paris. Valls suggested Tuesday May 9, 2017 that he wants to abandon France's Socialist party and run in June parliamentary elections under the banner of the president-elect's centrist political movement Macron. But it's not clear if he will be able to do so. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer/Pool, File)
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