page_title: Marion Maréchal
section_title: Regional candidacy in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (2015)
hierarchical_section_title: Marion Maréchal / Political career / Regional candidacy in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (2015)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: panneaux des candidats au 1er tour des élections régionales Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 2015
context_page_description: Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal, known as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen from 2010 to 2018, is a French politician, part of the Le Pen family, granddaughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of its current leader Marine Le Pen.
  She is a member of the National Front and served as the member of the National Assembly for Vaucluse's 3rd constituency from 2012 to 2017. Aged 22 years at the time of her election, she became France's youngest parliamentarian in modern political history. After the 2015 regional elections, for which she received the best result for a FN candidate, she became the Leader of the Opposition in the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
  In 2017, she did not seek re-election as a member of the National Assembly and resigned as a regional councillor. She is currently involved in the education sector and financing the creation of a private school project. In 2018, she removed Le Pen from her last name.
context_section_description: In April 2015, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen was chosen by her party to be the leading FN candidate in the southeastern region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in that year's regional elections, after her grandfather was expelled for his remarks on the Holocaust. She did not support his expulsion. The elections came a month after an Islamist terror attack which killed 130 people in Paris. Maréchal-Le Pen reacted on television by declaring that "Today, we can see that immigration has become favorable terrain for the development of Islamism".
  In the first round of voting, she won 40.55% of the vote, becoming one of six FN candidates to lead a region. Socialist candidate Christophe Castaner then withdrew, to avoid splitting the vote for The Republicans' mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi. In the second round of voting, no FN candidate won a region, with Maréchal-Le Pen losing to Estrosi by 54.78% to 45.22%. She received the best result for a National Front candidate, Marine Le Pen in comparison obtaining 42% in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region.
caption: Electoral posters in Saint-Didier, Vaucluse
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