Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen ( * August 5, 1968 in Neuilly -sur -Seine as Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen) is a French lawyer, politician and daughter of the politician Jean -Marie Le Pen since the 2004 European elections, she is a member of the European Parliament. On January 16, 2011, she was the heir of her father as chairman of the French far-right National Front (FN).

Curriculum vitae

Marine Le Pen is the youngest of three daughters of Jean -Marie Le Pen and his first wife, Pierrette Lalanne. Upon completion of law studies in Paris in 1992, she received her license to practice law and worked as a lawyer until 1998.

Marine Le Pen was with the businessman Franck Chauffroy, who worked for the party, married and has three born of this marriage in 1998 and 1999 children. After the divorce, she married second husband, the FN functionary Eric Lorio, from which it is now also divorced. Currently she is the Vice President of the National Front, Louis Aliot, romantically involved.

Party

She was a deputy of eight Vice-Presidents and since 2003 Chairman of the FN. To change the position of the party chairman in succession her father fought within the party with Bruno Gollnisch, a professor of Japanese language and culture in Lyon, which is listened to the extreme right wing and notorious for making anti- Semitic statements, while Le Pen came in for an opening of the party (see below).

On 15 January 2011 she was elected at a party congress of the Front National in Tours basis of a survey of members to its chairman. They stood up to the long-standing deputy chairman FN Gollnisch. With a participation rate of 76 percent of the approximately 22 400 members 67.65 % for Marine Le Pen and 32.35% for Gollnisch had voted. At the party, the result was a day earlier leaked. A day later, she officially took over the leadership of the party from her father. Gollnisch immediately rejected the offer Marine Le Pen for the post of first deputy from. She announced to contest the 2012 presidential election. Surveys in March 2011 told her for 23 percent of the votes ahead of President Nicolas Sarkozy were then predicted 21%. However, after she lay in the polls way behind the Socialists Francois Hollande and Sarkozy to third. In fact, they received 22 April 2012 17.9% of the valid votes cast, more than ever, a candidate of the extreme right, while François Hollande was elected president. Some observers believe Le Pen's long-term goal is a union with the right, Gaullist wing of the UMP, which could allow their party along the lines of the Italian National Alliance, the long-term government takeover or participation.

Political positions

Since the start of the party leadership in 2011 pursued a strategy of Marine Le Pen " Entdiabolisierung " to win voters from the middle of the Society for the populist policies of the National Front. She is courting Jewish support by pushing anti-Semitic politicians to the edge of the Party and the Holocaust clearly condemned in contrast to trivializing expressions of her father.

In the financial and economic policy, it strikes a protectionist tone, the " economic patriotism " the sovereignty of France against both the EU also underlines the international financial markets in the spirit of. So they demanded the withdrawal of France from the euro and a return to the franc to zurückzuverlagern the fiscal decision-making powers from Brussels to Paris. Rhetorical represents Le Pen 's claim to represent the true, camp -wide legacy of the Gaullist, to the right as the left. Your critical comments about capitalism and globalization within the context of the banking and euro crisis, the Socialists alerted who fear being outflanked in the favor of voters by a " left- LePenismus ". At the same time the party has filed under Le Pen's leadership their reputation as men party and always undergoes larger throngs of white working-class women, a development that prompted the socialist Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici to the conclusion that it was politically " dangerous than her father ."

Le Pen rejects a multicultural society strictly and asks that France should enhance the assimilation of immigrants. They emphasized in their speeches the - in their opinion - harmful impact of immigration on the French society and economy. It requires rigorous cuts in social assistance for non-French, strict deportation laws for criminal immigrants and the abolition of jus soli for obtaining French citizenship. This should only be acquired by descent or merit. To combat crime, it proposes, among other things, a referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty.

Le Pen takes a demonstrative for the French secularism, which needs to defend against the " Islamization " of the country. So she said in December 2010, French roads are now every Friday from praying Muslims " busy" and - in allusion to the problems of the French suburbs - there are places where it is not good to be a " woman, gay or Jew, not even french or white. "

In the event of an election victory, Le Pen has the France's withdrawal from NATO and a deepening of cooperation with Russia promised.

Mandates

From 1998 to 2004 she was a General Councilor of Nord-Pas- de -Calais, since 2004, she is sitting in the Regional Council of Ile- de -France.

In the European elections in 2004 led her to the list of the National Front in the constituency Ile- de -France and was, like her father, win a seat in the European Parliament. There she was as a non-attached member of the Committee on Culture and Education and the Delegation for relations with Israel. In 2007, she was involved in the foundation of our group Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty, but broke up again a few months later. In the European elections in France in 2009 she was re-elected and has since been one of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Delegation to the ACP -EU on.

End of May 2013, a committee of the European Parliament called for the lifting of immunity of Marine Le Pen. Background were Islamophobic statements by the politician from the year 2010, when she compared Street prayers by Muslims with the occupation of France by Nazi Germany. On 2 July 2013, the waiver of immunity was decided by Parliament.

Works

  • Marine Le Pen, Editions Jacques Grancher (ed.): Pour que vive la France. Éditions Jacques Grancher, 2012 ISBN 2733911821st
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