French elections: who is Marine Le Pen, the sovereign who challenges Macron to the ballot

Sunday 24th April is the day of ballot from the elections presidential elections in France. As five years ago the race to the Elysée will be a challenge between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Penbut today the gap between the two is much smaller

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In the first round, on April 10, Macron took 27.84%, chased by Marine Le Pen at 23.15%. Now in the ballot the polls speak of Macron at 54% but the leader of the RN closely follows him. That’s who politics is aiming to become President of the Republic

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Born in 1968 to Neuilly-Sur-Seinenear Paris, is the youngest of the three daughters of Jean Marie Le Penfounder of the far-right party National Front. She is a lawyer, she briefly practiced the legal profession in Paris and then entered politics

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Enter the Front National at 18 and in 1998 he becomes regional councilor in the Pas-de-Calais. In the 2004 enter at European Parliamentwhere she will be re-elected in 2009 and 2014. From 2017 is a deputy to the French National Assembly

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On a personal level, the leader is mother of three children, of which two twins, had between 1998 and 1999. Divorced twicehas been the companion of the vice president of his party since 2009, Louis Aliot. Louis Aliot announced theirs separation in September 2019

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In the 2011 Marine succeeds her father as leader of the Front National. Its goal is to renew the image of the party, which is believed to be too extremist for its admittedly tones racists and anti-migrants

In Le Pen’s vision, the Front must be a party of people who want regain possession of their country. So they join the party new managers coming from a more institutional rightlike Florian Philippot

In April 2015 the leader chases the father from the party. In that case old Le Pen had spoken of the again Nazi gas chambers as of a “detail of the story”using overtly anti-Semitic tones

After his long commitment to “normalize” (the French media used the word “dédiaboliser”) the party, the Front National changed its name in 2018becoming the Rassemblement national (RN)

The party remains an anti-immigrant force, especially Muslims. Le Pen is an advocate of politics “The French first” on employment, welfare and housing. Promote a reform of nationality regulations

His for the 2022 elections program went on to touch about 20 themesamong which the safetyimmigration, the family and the economy