Marine Le Pen

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Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen (b. 1968) is the current head of the Front National, a French ultra-right political party. She is the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen the previous leader of the party. She is a nationalist Eurosceptic.

She seems to have succeeded in laundering the party image by:

  • forbidding the Nazi salute amongst her skinhead followers or her security service;[1]
  • distancing herself from her denialist father's views; (more recently, boldened by her electoral successes, she has taken it to the point to ban her father's blog from the party's website, provoking a spat between the two and firmly entrenching the new party line.)
  • sometimes adopting a surprisingly modern position for a wingnut, notably opposing the repeal of the 1975 abortion law;[2]
  • or simply being a woman in a party that had been more associated with her old one-eyed father and beer drinking skinheads.

This makeover appears to have paid off - in the 2012 Presidential elections she gained over 18% of the vote, the highest ever for her party. However, she failed to make the cut for the second round of voting.[3] But she confirmed her results in the 2014 European election by leading the Front National to first place in France in 70% of the counties, confirming the now widespread appeal of her party.

Nonetheless, she still wants to kick all those lazy and delinquent immigrants out of France (to where, since most those she refers to are second generation, therefore French, is not clear), and prevent those evul Muslims from tearing down traditional French values.[4] And revert to isolationism. Oh, and also exit the European Union, whose technocrats want to use French taxes to bail those lazy Greeks and Portuguese out of their economic troubles. She is also staunchly anti-free trade, and anti-corporate tax.

Lately (November 2013), she made comments implicitly accusing hostages formerly held in Niger since 2010, and who have just been freed, of being Islamized The Mandchurian candidate-style because they were wearing the beards and the clothes their kidnappers wanted they keep[5]. On a side note, she didn't comment on another recently freed hostage, who, when asked by a journalist if he was going back to France, jokingly answered "inchallah".

[edit] Footnotes

  1. Already forbidden, but not fully enforced before. Marine does take pain to keep them away from the media.
  2. Much to the dismay of the old guard, but don't worry, she's still supporting capital punishment and opposing euthanasia and gay marriage.
  3. Marine Le Pen scores stunning result in French presidential election
  4. Despite being divorced!
  5. Marine Le Pen condemned for remarks about beards of French hostages, Guardian
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