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Marine Le Pen
(
French pronunciation:
[ma.?in l?.p?n]
; born
Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen
; 5 August 1968
[1]
) is a
French
politician. She was the leader of the
National Front
(FN) political party from 2011 until her resignation in 2017.
[2]
She is a
lawyer
. She is the youngest daughter of
Jean-Marie Le Pen
, who was leader of FN for many years. She is the aunt of
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
.
Le Pen unsuccessfully ran for
President of France
in the
2017 election
, losing to
Emmanuel Macron
in the second round. She ran again in the
2022 election
, advancing again to the second round against Macron and lost.
Marine Le Pen and her family has been the target of an
assassination
attempt in 1976 when she was 8 years old. She has studied law at
Pantheon-Assas University
and has become a barrister. She joined the National Front in 1998 and rose to prominence, being elected in several positions such as
Member of the European Parliament
in 2004, to finally succeed to her father at the head of the party in 2011.
Since that, Le Pen has led a movement of "de-demonisation of the National Front" (in reference to her father's nickname "The Devil of the Republic") in order to detoxify it and soften its image. She is considered to be far more republican and democratic than her controversial and nationalist father. Her success is also based on a renovated political speech and a renewed team. She got the best FN score at the
2012 French presidential election
and her party have progressed in next elections until shoving the traditional bipartisan between right and left wings in France.
She has been ranked among the most
influential
people in the
2011
and
2015 Time 100
.
- ↑
"Marine Le Pen"
.
britannica.com
. Retrieved
25 June
2020
.
- ↑
"Marine Le Pen steps down as Front National leader"
.
The Irish Times
. April 24, 2017.
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