Profile of Marine Le Pen, who led the rise of France's far right

Record ID: 1825371

  • Title: Profile of Marine Le Pen, who led the rise of France's far right
  • Date: 26th June 2024
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - NOVEMBER 12, 2023) (REUTERS) PEOPLE MARCHING DURING DEMONSTRATION AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM LE PEN AND BARDELLA AT DEMONSTRATION CROWDS BOOING NATIONAL RALLY LEADERS ATTENDING DEMONSTRATION / DEMONSTRATORS RUNNING / LE PEN BEING PROTECTED BY SECURITY LE PEN MARCHING
  • Embargoed: 10th July 2024 08:37
  • Keywords: Bardella France Macron RN Rassemblement National far right snap election
  • Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • City: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Europe,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA009360225062024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Marine Le Pen and her far-right National Rally (RN) party have taken centre stage in France's parliamentary electoral campaign, after the RN trounced President Emmanuel Macron's party in the early June European elections, leading him to trigger the snap elections.
    Le Pen, the frontrunner for the 2027 election in which Macron is unable to stand, has since been campaigning to get herself and members of her party elected in the upcoming legislative June 30 and July 7 rounds.
    The eurosceptic, anti-immigration RN has been running on the idea of "national preference" and fighting for French people's purchasing power, in an effort to appeal beyond its traditional base.
    Le Pen, who lost to Macron in a 2017 runoff election for president, has in recent years tried to make her party more palatable to traditional conservative and working class voters.
    Considered very media savvy, she has renamed her party, the former "National Front" founded by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, and shifted to a less brash political brand.
    Born, August 5, 1968 in the wealthy Paris suburb of Neuilly as Marion Anne Perinne Le Pen, and became a member of the National Front (FN) in 1986.
    She qualified as a lawyer in 1992 and practised until 1998 when she abandoned her legal career to work as a lawyer for the FN. She replaced her father at the head of the party in January 2011.
    Macron beat Le Pen in two presidential election runoffs, in 2017 and 2022, but her popularity has kept growing since.
    (Production: Ardee Napolitano, Manuel Ausloos)
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