France's Le Pen lends support to Czech far-right for EU polls Marine Le Pen, head of France's National Rally party, addresses a rally in Prague to express her backing for local far-right lawmaker Tomio Okamura in his bid to hand the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party its first-ever seat in Strasbourg in European parliament elections next month. Le Pen says that for the first time in these elections "the democratic movement of patriots in all countries allows a reform of the European framework." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES from rally