Marine Le Pen, after a failed presidential campaign, is ready to drop her party's position on France leaving the eurozone | Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images Marine Le Pen ready to drop euro exit plan, says ally The public ‘does not want it,’ says National Front MP.

PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is ready to drop her party's longstanding plans to leave the eurozone in the wake of her failed presidential campaign, a senior official in her party said Friday.

Le Pen will preside over a congress of her National Front party early next year to decide how it should adapt to life in opposition.

But Gilbert Collard, a National Front MP, said Le Pen had already decided it was time to give up the party's plans to leave the eurozone.

Asked if Le Pen waned to change tack on the euro, Collard told France 2: "Yes, I think so. She's a very smart politician, and she can see that even if you are right, you can be wrong in terms of public opinion."

"Imposing an exit from the euro, even if it is a very, very bad currency, is not a good thing in the sense that public opinion does not want it. In a democracy, you don't win against public opinion."

The euro question has divided the National Front for years. It was a major factor in Le Pen's worse-than-expected performance against President Emmanuel Macron in the general election.

Party vice president Florian Philippot, the architect of the euro policy, has formed a distinct political structure inside the National Front amid open disagreement over the party's line.