Marine Le Pen
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Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen (French: born 5 August 1968) is a French lawyer and politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022. She served as the president of the National Rally (RN; previously the National Front, FN). She has been a member of Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency since 2017. Le Pen has been labelled far-right on the political spectrum.
She is Jean-Marie Le Pen's youngest daughter and the aunt of former FN MP Marion Maréchal. In 1986, Le Pen joined the FN. She was elected as a regional councillor of Nord-Pas-de-Calais (1998–2004; 2010–2015), Île-de-France (2004–2021), a Member of the European Parliament (2004–2017), as well as a municipal councillor of Hénin-Beaumont (2008–2011). With 67.6% of the vote, she took over the FN's leadership in 2011, defeating Bruno Gollnisch and replacing her father, who had been president of the party since 1972. She came third in the presidential election in 2012, behind François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy in third place. At the 2017 election, she made her second attempt for the presidency. She came in second in the first round of the election with 21.3% of the vote, beating centrist party En Marche's Emmanuel Macron. In the second round of voting, the two groups of candidates differed. She resigned after receiving over 39% of the vote in the second round on May 7th. She declared her third bid for the presidency in 2020 in the 2022 election. She finished second in the first round of the election, effectively qualifying her for the second round against Macron, but she fell in the second round to Macron.
Le Pen has pioneered a movement of "demonization of the National Front" to soften its image, with limited expulsion of members convicted of bigotry, antisemitism, or Pétainism. In August 2015, she suspended her father from the party after he made fresh controversies. Le Pen also reframed some of the party's most controversial policies by reversing its opposition to same-sex marriages, its opposition to unconditional abortions, and its support for the death penalty. She supports economic nationalism, favoring an interventionist role in government, and opposed to globalization and multiculturalism. Le Pen favors restricting the legality of circumcision, prohibiting ritual slaughter, and restricting the extent of circumcision. She has promised to ban France from their spheres of influence as a critic of American and NATO policies. In the past, Le Pen has made supportive remarks of Vladimir Putin and Russia, urging closer collaboration ahead of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; she has strongly condemned the conflict in Ukraine, but she also stated that Russia "could become an ally of France again" if it persists.
In 2011, and 2015, Le Pen was named one of the world's 100 most influential people. After President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, she was named by Politico as the second most influential MEP in the European Parliament in 2016.
Early life and education
Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the youngest of three children of Jean-Marie Le Pen's, a Breton politician and former paratrooper, and his first wife, Pierrette Le Pen, were born on August 5th, 1968. She was baptized at La Madeleine Church in Paris on April 25, 1969. Henri Botey, a cousin of her father, was her godfather.
Yann and Marie Caroline are Le Pen's two sisters. A bomb meant for her father exploded outside the family's house when they slept in 1976. The explosion cut a hole in the outside wall of the building, but Marine, her two older sisters, and their parents were unharmed.
She was a student at the Lycée Florent Schmitt in Saint-Cloud. When Marine was 16 years old, her mother left the family in 1984. The result, Le Pen's autobiography, was "the most horrific, cruel, and crippling of heart pains: my mother did not love me." In 1987, her parents divorced.
Le Pen studied law at Panthéon-Assas University, graduating with a Master of Laws in 1991 and a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in criminal law in 1992. She served as an advocate for six years (1992-1998), appearing regularly before the 23rd district court of Paris, which hears immediate appearances and often as a public defender. She was a member of the Paris Bar from 1998 to 1998, when she joined the National Front's legal section.
Le Pen was raised Roman Catholic. Franck Chauffroy, a national Front executive, married Franck Chauffroy in 1995. She has three children with Chauffroy (Jehanne, Louis, and Mathilde). She married Eric Lorio, the former national secretary of the National Front and a former advisor to the Regional election in Nord-Pas-de-Calais after her divorce from Chauffroy in 2000. In 2006, the couple divorced.
She was in a relationship with Louis Aliot from 2009 to 2019, who is of ethnic French Pied-Noir and Algerian Jewish origins. From 2005 to 2010, he was the National Front general secretary, then vice president of the National Front. Since September 2014, she and her three children have lived in La Celle-Saint-Cloud. She lives in Hénin-Beaumont. She purchased a house in Millas in 2010 with Aliot.
Early political career
Marine Le Pen joined the FN in 1986, at the age of 18. She acquired her first political mandate in 1988 when she was elected a Regional Councillor for Nord-Pas-de-Calais. In the same year, she joined the FN's juridical branch, which she led until 2003.
In 2000, she became president of Generations Le Pen, a loose association close to the party which aimed at "de-demonizing the Front National". She became a member the FN Executive Committee (French: bureau politique) in 2000, and vice-president of the FN in 2003. In 2006, she managed the presidential campaign of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. She became one of the two executive vice-presidents of the FN in 2007, with responsibility for training, communication and publicity.
In the 2007 parliamentary election, she contested Pas-de-Calais' 14th constituency but came second behind incumbent Socialist MP Albert Facon.
Early in 2010, Le Pen expressed her intention to run for leader of the FN, saying that she hoped to make the party "a big popular party that addresses itself not only to the electorate on the right but to all the French people".
On 3 September 2010, she launched her leadership campaign at Cuers, Var. During a meeting in Paris on 14 November 2010, she said that her goal was "not only to assemble our political family. It consists of shaping the Front National as the center of grouping of the whole French people", adding that in her view the FN leader should be the party's candidate in the 2012 presidential election. She spent four months campaigning for the FN leadership, holding meetings with FN members in 51 departments. All the other departments were visited by one of her official supporters. During her final meeting of the campaign in Hénin-Beaumont on 19 December 2010, she claimed that the FN would present the real debate of the next presidential campaign. Her candidacy was endorsed by a majority of senior figures in the party, including her father.
On several occasions during her campaign she ruled out any political alliance with the Union for a Popular Movement. She also distanced herself from some of Jean-Marie Le Pen's most controversial statements, such as those relating to war crimes, which was reported in the media as attempts to improve the party's image. While her father had attracted controversy by saying that the mass murder of Jews in gas chambers during the Holocaust was "a detail of the history of World War II", she described genocide as "the height of barbarism".
In December 2010 and early January 2011, FN members voted by post to elect their new president and the members of the central committee. The party held a congress at Tours on 15–16 January. On 16 January 2011, Marine Le Pen was elected as the new president of the FN, with 67.65% of the vote (11,546 votes to 5,522 for Bruno Gollnisch), and Jean-Marie Le Pen became honorary chairman.
Marine Le Pen received substantial media attention during the campaign as a result of comments, made during a speech to party members in Lyon on 10 December 2010, in which she compared the use of public streets and squares in French cities (in particular rue Myrha in the 18th arrondissement of Paris) for Muslim prayers with the Nazi occupation of France. She said:
Her comments were much criticised. Government spokesman François Baroin characterized her remarks as racist and xenophobic. The Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), the French Council of Muslim Faith (CFCM) and the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) condemned her statement, and groups including MRAP (Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples) and the French Human Rights League (LDH) declared their intention to lodge a formal complaint. The imam of the Great Mosque of Paris and former president of the CFCM, Dalil Boubakeur, said that, while her parallel was questionable and to be condemned, she had asked a valid question.
Le Pen's partner Louis Aliot, a member of the FN's Executive Committee, criticized "the attempted manipulation of opinion by communitarian groups and those really responsible for the current situation in France". On 13 December 2010, Le Pen reasserted her statement during a press conference at the FN headquarters in Nanterre. After Jean-François Kahn's comments on BFM TV on 13 December 2010, she accused the Élysée Palace of organising "state manipulation" with the intention of demonizing her in public opinion.
On 15 December 2015, a Lyon court acquitted her of "inciting hatred", ruling that her statement "did not target all of the Muslim community" and was protected "as a part of freedom of expression".