Marine Le Pen
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Marine Le Pen (born Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen, on August 5, 1968 at Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French National Front politician, a lawyer by profession, and a Member of the European Parliament since 2004. She is the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Life and career
Marine Le Pen is the daughter of French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen and his first wife Pierrette Lalanne. She has been married and divorced twice: from Franck Chauffroy, a businessman, and later from Éric Iorio, a FN (Front national: National Front) local assemblyman. From her first marriage, she has three children born in 1998 and 1999. Le Pen ran in the 2004 French regional elections in the Île-de-France région. She has been one of eight vice-presidents of the FN since April 2003.
Since she joined the FN party, she has advocated tolerance for abortion and homosexuality, which has notably angered some of the more traditional Catholic voters. She also feels anti-Semitism to be unacceptable in modern French society.
Marine Le Pen was part of the "TSM" current inside the FN (Tout sauf Mégret, Anybody But Mégret) during the 1990s crisis, along with Samuel Maréchal, Jean-Claude Martinez, Roger Holeindre, the Catholic current represented by Bernard Antony and Bruno Gollnisch, and Martine Lehideux.[1]
Since 2002 she has been the president of Generations Le Pen, an organization close to the FN, which aims "to promote the thought and works of Jean-Marie Le Pen" among youth. She was elected to the European Parliament in the 2004 elections and has been reelected in the 2009 elections.
In 2006 Jean-Marie Le Pen turned over to her the management of his presidential campaign.
Within the FN, she is opposed by notable members (and former members) such as Bruno Gollnisch, Louis Aliot, Carl Lang and Jean-Claude Martinez
On 5 July 2009, Le Pen, as second candidate on Steeve Briois' list, failed in her attempt to win a municipal by-election in Hénin-Beaumont, a mining town in the industrial north. Le Pen's National Front party lost with 47.6 per cent of the votes.[1]
Electoral mandates
- Member of European Parliament : Since 2004
- Regional councillor of Nord-Pas-de-Calais : 1998-2004
- Regional councillor of Ile-de-France : Since 2004
- Municipal councillor of Hénin-Beaumont : Since 2008
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