{"id":2034,"date":"2014-11-25T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2014-11-25T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:01:28","slug":"here-comes-france-right-wing-leader-marine-le-pen-demands-central-bank-repatriate-french-gold-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes France: Right-Wing Leader Marine Le Pen Demands Central Bank Repatriate French Gold | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-11-25\/here-comes-france-right-wing-leader-marine-le-pen-demands-central-bank-repatriate-fr\">Here Comes France: Right-Wing Leader Marine Le Pen Demands Central Bank Repatriate French Gold | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">First Germany, then the Netherlands, perhaps Switzerland this weekend, and now the French right-wing Front National, which shockingly\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20140521-france-national-front-europe-parliament-elections\/\">came first\u00a0<\/a>in May&#8217;s European parliament elections, and whose leader Marine Le Pen is currently\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/datablog\/2014\/sep\/08\/le-pen-tops-presidential-poll-for-first-time-ever\">polling in first place\u00a0<\/a>in a hypothetical presidential election (in both a first and run off round), ahead of president Hollande, has sent a letter to the governor of the French Central Bank, the\u00a0<em>Banque de France<\/em>, demanding that France join the list of nations which have repatriated, or at least tried to, their gold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">From her letter, here is the full list of French demands (google translated):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Urgent repatriation on French soil of all of our gold reserves located abroad.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>An immediate discontinuation of any gold sales program.<\/li>\n<li>Conversely, a gradual reallocation of a significant portion of foreign exchange reserves in the balance sheet of the Bank of France by buying gold at each significant decrease in the price of an ounce (recommendation 20%) .<\/li>\n<li>A suspension of any financial commitment or loan contract would wager that our gold reserves.<\/li>\n<li>At the patrimonial and financial balance of the 2004 gold sales transactions ordered by N. Sarkozy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><em>Her full letter below<\/em>\u00a0(<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontnational.com%2F2014%2F11%2Flettre-ouverte-de-marine-le-pen-au-gouverneur-de-la-banque-de-france%25E2%2580%258F%2F&amp;edit-text=\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here Comes France: Right-Wing Leader Marine Le Pen Demands Central Bank Repatriate French Gold | Zero Hedge. 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