Le Pen, 53, is currently a member of the French National Assembly representing Calais, a coastal town near Britain struggling to deal with migrants headed to Britain.
She is best known as a member of the first family of the French far-right. His father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founded the National Front in 1972, a political party long seen as racist and anti-Semitic. When the younger Le Pen took over as party leader from his father in 2011, he attempted to rebrand the National Front as a more mainstream one, expelling his father from the political party he supported. was repeated
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However, Le Pen shares her father’s views on immigration. In his unsuccessful campaign against Macron, he attempted to establish himself as a
French Donald TrumpClaiming to represent the forgotten French working classes, who are suffering because of globalization and technological progress.
But her economic nationalist stance, views on immigration, Euroskepticism and the position on Islam in France – she wants to make it illegal for women to wear headscarves in public – proved unpopular among French voters, as she lost her first contest against him. She was Was. macros
While “stopping uncontrolled immigration” and “elimination of Islamic ideologies” are the top two priorities of his platform, Le Pen has sought to broaden his appeal.
In the weeks before the first round of elections, Le Pen worked hard on pocketbook issues, often starting interviews and media appearances by explaining to voters how she would help them tackle inflation and rising fuel prices. Major issues for the public.
The strategy seems to have worked. Le Pen voted far better in the first round of 2022 than it was five years ago, and pollster IFOP polls suggest the Macron-Le Pen runoff could be closer to 53% to 47%, favoring the incumbent. is in. It is possible
But some of Le Pen’s other political positions may come back to haunt him in the runoff caused by the war in Ukraine. She has long been an outspoken admirer of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, who has become an untouchable in the West because of the Kremlin’s decision to attack his neighbor. Le Pen meets Russian strongman
During his 2017 campaign for presidentBut this time, she was forced to scrap a leaflet with a picture of herself and Putin from that trip after the invasion.
His previous opposition to NATO –
Le Pen’s 2017 Campaign Platform Pulling France from the alliance is involved – may also be an obligation.
Recent polls from IFOP shows that 67% of the French public do not believe that France should leave NATO.