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Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen ( French: [maʁin lə pɛn]; born 5 August 1968) is a French lawyer and politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022. A member of the National Rally (RN; previously the National Front, FN), she served as its president from 2011 to 2021.
Le Pen, 53, is running for president for a third time and would become France’s first female president if she wins. The far-right leader has softened her public image in recent years in an...
Apr 5, 2024 · Whether in Brussels or any other European capital, these days it’s impossible to have any discussion about France without reference to the risk of opposition leader Marine Le Pen’s presidency in 2027. Europeanizing France’s nuclear deterrent? “But would Le Pen stand by it?” France’s long-term commitment to Ukraine?
Jun 30, 2011 · Marine Le Pen (born August 5, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French politician who succeeded her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, as leader of the National Front (later National Rally) party in 2011. She was that party’s candidate in the 2017 and 2022 French presidential elections.
Jun 3, 2024 · French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is likely to emerge as a big winner at the weekend's European Parliament elections even though she isn't even on the ballot.
Feb 12, 2024 · In 1987, a squinting, lipless, blond-haired politician named Jean Marie Le Pen was asked on a French radio show whether he believed that 6 million Jews had been murdered in the Nazi gas chambers. His response was a study in uncertainty.
May 9, 2024 · A Le Pen premiership, if deftly handled, could boost her chance of becoming President later on. (She already saw her vote share jump from 34% in the 2017 presidential contest to 41% in the 2022...
Apr 22, 2022 · A family drama. And yet she already fared better than her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who made it to the run-off in 2002 on an anti-immigrant, law-and-order platform. He was trounced because 82%...
May 4, 2021 · A French court has acquitted far-right leader Marine Le Pen and a party colleague of breaking hate speech laws by posting three images of Islamic State atrocities on Twitter.
Mar 14, 2017 · (Getty Images) The mystery of who tried to kill Jean-Marie Le Pen and his family on the night of 1 November 1976 is still unsolved. At the time the FN was just four years old, a fringe...
