Le Pen presents election plans

At the party convention in Lille, he said he would halt immigration and integration with the European Union.

It is his fifth and probably last bid for the presidency, and correspondents say he has little chance of winning.

Mr Le Pen came a surprise second in the 2002 race, but is currently trailing in the opinion polls.

The 78-year-old politician arrived on stage to chants of “Le Pen, president!” and launched into an attack on the whole French political class who he blamed for leading the country to ruin, says the BBC’s Jonathan Marcus in Lille.

‘Miserable people’

He told 2,000 supporters that the situation in France was “catastrophic”.

“There can not be any economic reform nor a return to growth without putting a halt to uncontrolled immigration of all the miserable people of the planet who are coming to compete with our impoverished workers,” he said.

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His promise to return illegal immigrants to their countries of origin raised loud cheers from the audience.

He said he would cut off social and health care benefits to immigrants and lower taxes, build more prison cells and boost military spending.

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