Marine Le Pen

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{{cquote|But here’s what’s dangerous about her. Just like a terminator, she gets smarter with each sequel. After the last election, she started to rebrand as a kinder, gentler racist. May I take you back to where you came from?|||Trevor Noah<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqlkPJH_on4&pp=ygUMI3BlbnVocmFobWFk The French Election - Other Countries Have News Too | The Daily Show] YouTube</ref>}}

[[File:Marine Le Pen 2022 (cropped).jpg|thumb|165px|Imagine if [[Donald Trump|Trump]] was a woman & French...]]{{FrenchPolitics}}'''Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen''' {{lived|1968}} is the current head of [[National Rally]] (a [[France|French]] [[far-right|ultra-right]] political party renamed from Front National in June 2018) as well as the daughter of its [[nepotism|previous]] leader, [[Jean-Marie Le Pen|Jean-Marie <sup>Le Pen</sup>]].  She is a [[nationalist]] [[Eurosceptic]], far-right populist, and general jackarsehole who '''really''' wants to fuck [[Nigel Farage]].<ref name=Eye1429>''Private Eye'' No. 1429 (October 2016). [http://www.imgur.com/ipwoLv4 p.1]</ref> You wouldn't want France's first female president to be her, but then again, this is the era of populist bomb-throwing. Do you want to appear out of touch with the latest fashion?

The fate of the [[European Union]] hangs on France and Germany. The EU can easily survive [[Brexit]], but if one of those key countries is gone, it's over. Second of all, the French president has more power than any other Union leader.  There are still checks and balances, but with a larger share (25%) of MPs Le Pen could make good on her claims. "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" might soon be replaced with [[Vichy France | "Travail, famille, patrie"]].

==A kinder, more gentle fascist==
[[stopped clock| She seems to have succeeded in laundering the party image by]]:
*Banning the [[Nazi]] salute amongst her [[skinhead]] followers and her security service.<ref group=note>Already forbidden, but not fully enforced before. Marine does take pain to keep them away from the media.</ref>
*Her campaign branding is all about "Marine" — leaving out her surname and party identification.
*Distancing herself from her [[Holocaust denial|denialist]] father's views (more recently, emboldened by her electoral successes, she has taken it to the point to ban [[Jean-Marie Le Pen|her father]]'s blog from the party's website, provoking a spat between the two and firmly entrenching the new party line).
*Distancing herself from her father's antisemitism and, after many divorces, having a man of Algerian Jewish descent as her partner.
*Sometimes adopting a surprisingly modern position for a [[wingnut]], notably opposing the repeal of the 1975 [[abortion]] law, despite favoring to not allow social security to refund them.<ref group=note>Much to the dismay of the old guard, but don't worry, she's still supporting [[capital punishment]] because of a referendum where the majority of the FN-members voted in favor and opposing [[euthanasia]] and [[gay marriage]], though she is in favor of [[gay]] [[civil unions]].</ref>
*Or simply being a [[woman]] in a party that had been more associated with her old one-eyed father and beer-drinking skinheads.

==Presidential bids==
This makeover appears to have paid off - in the 2012 Presidential elections she gained over 18% of the vote, the highest ever for her party. However, she failed to make the cut for the second round of voting.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/22/marine-le-pen-french-election?intcmp=239 Marine Le Pen scores stunning result in French presidential election]</ref>
But she confirmed her results in the 2014 European election by leading the Front National to first place in France in 70% of the counties, confirming the now widespread appeal of her party.

Nonetheless, she still wants to kick all those lazy and delinquent immigrants out of [[France]] (to where, since most those she refers to are second generation, therefore French, is not clear), and prevent those [[Eurabia|evul Muzlimz]] from tearing down traditional French [[Family values|values]].<ref>[http://www.elections-presidentielles-2017.fr/candidats-2012/marine-le-pen/ Despite being divorced!]</ref> And revert to [[isolationism]]. Oh, and also leave the [[European Union]], whose technocrats want to use French [[tax]]es to bail those lazy [[Greece|Greeks]] and [[Portugal|Portuguese]] out of their economic troubles. She is also staunchly anti-[[free trade]] and anti-[[corporate]] tax.

[[Brexit]] and [[Donald Trump|Trump]] made Le Pen's election much, ''much'' more likely since she has been analyzing and copying what made both of those campaigns successful. Unlike Trump or Brexit, voting Le Pen is a vote to ''end'' French sovereignty. Le Pen is funded by Putin, and it's very likely that he's influencing the election in other ways. It's too important for him not to. Russian trolls, hackers, official Kremlin declarations of support/threats, and planted news stories will be among the tools used. If she wins, she'll owe part of her victory to them and will be reliant on their support to stay in power. (When she leaves office, she might also get a good "retirement plan" from them, just like Gerhard Schröder.) Monsieur Marshall Pétain already had their vision in place for France.

In November 2013 she made comments implicitly accusing hostages formerly held in Niger since 2010, and who had just been freed, of being Islamized ''Manchurian-candidate''-style because they were wearing the beards and the clothes their kidnappers wanted them to keep.<ref>''[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/marine-le-pen-french-hostages-beards-front-national-islam Marine Le Pen condemned for remarks about beards of French hostages]'', Guardian</ref> On a side note, she didn't comment on another recently freed hostage, who, when asked by a journalist if he was going back to France, jokingly answered "inshallah".

She made it through the runoff in 2017 against former banker and independent Emmanuel Macron, utterly dismantling the two-party system that had existed for the entire Fifth Republic's history. She lost to Macron, 34% to 65%, and conceded within half an hour of the polls closing. Despite the loss, Front National received more votes than at any other point in its history. However, the post-2019 rebranding to try and get moderates to think the party had become more palatable seems to have backfired as now the far-right has begun to turn towards a new figure, Eric Zemmour, a Trump-praising Petain-defending pundit who says he's the right kind of extreme for a “war of civilisations”.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/08/same-old-french-far-right-the-meteoric-rise-of-eric-zemmour Rise of Old-School French Far-Right]</ref>

Le Pen ran again in the 2022 election and made it to the second round, facing Macron once more. She lost, though she increased her vote share to 42%. <ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61209058</ref>

==Pink France==
In what may come as a surprise, Le Pen also got 36% of the gay French vote,<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447355/marine-le-pen-gay-support National Review]</ref> a smidgen more than the overall vote.  Why would the 
Nazi
 National Front receive any support at all from gay voters, a group that most National Front members would hate?  Well, there have been a number of homophobic assaults against the French community in recent years, and a lot of them have been from radical Islamists.<ref>[https://nypost.com/2017/05/05/why-many-french-gays-adore-marine-le-pen/ NY Post]</ref>  Many gay French see themselves as having been forced to choose between the quasi-Nazis (quazis?) who would ''at best'' keep them locked up in the closet and [[Regressive Left|ostensible leftists who would shield and invite in]] more radical Muslims [[Islamophobia|that would supposedly do far worse]].

==Conviction==
In 2025, Le Pen along with her co-defendants were convicted of embezzling millions of Euros from the European Union. Le Pen was sentenced to 2 years in prison with an additional 2 years suspended sentence. She has also been banned from running for office for 5 years. Her conviction is likely to be appealed.<ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/frances-le-pen-awaits-verdict-in-embezzlement-trial.html France’s Marine Le Pen barred from running for public office for 5 years after embezzlement conviction: Media] by Holly Ellyatt (Mar 31 20253:28 AM EDT) ''CNBC''.</ref>

==See also==
* [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]] — Her goose-stepping fascist father. Jean-Marie had modest electoral success (such as his victory against Chirac in the 2002 elections) until he was kicked out in the party by Marine.
* [[Geert Wilders]] — Her [[Netherlands|Dutch]] equivalent. Ironically, the European Union has made it much easier for these parties to [https://i.imgur.com/ojkTRMp.jpg merge.]
* [[Emmanuel Macron|Macroni and Cheese]] — Her opponent who demolished her in the [[2017 French presidential elections]].
* {{wpl|Eric Zemmour}} — Her potential far-right successor who is channeling her father's worst positions and more.

==Notes==
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==References==
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