Who is French presidential candidate Marine?
Marie Le Pen is the French presidential candidate and Emmanuel Macron’s biggest competitor.
Presidential elections are underway in France. The first round of elections was held this Sunday, and the second round, which will take place on April 24, will face current French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right representative Marine Le Pen. Macron received 27.4 percent of the vote after counting 38 million votes, while Marine with 25.54 percent of the vote is right behind him. Marine Le Pen, 53, is the daughter of one of France's most famous extreme rightists, Jean-Marie Le Pen, known for his racist and anti-Semitic views, as well as controversial statements such as that gas chambers in Nazi camps, were 'minor details in World War II history. '. Jean-Marie Le Pen was the leader of the National Front party from 1972 to 2011, and it was his daughter who succeeded him.
Marine, for whom this is her third presidential candidacy, distanced herself from her father's views and even expelled him from the party in 2015, and then changed the party's name to the National Gathering. He called it a betrayal.
Although she has distanced herself from her father's most controversial statements, she shares his views on immigration, Euroscepticism, and the position of Islam in France. As its priorities, writes CNN, Marine emphasizes 'stopping uncontrolled immigration' and 'eradicating Islamist ideologies'.Le Pen has supported Putin for a long time, but after the invasion of Ukraine she distanced herself from him, and in case she wins the election, she announced an alliance with Poland and Hungary. She also wants France to leave the European Union and has always criticized NATO.
Marine has been married twice and has three children. She married Franck Chauffroy when she was 29 in 1997. In the same year, they had a daughter, Jehanne, and ten months later she gave birth to twins, Louis and Mathilde. They divorced in 2000, and Marine, known for keeping her private life out of the public eye, never said a word about their divorce. Two years later she married Eric Loria, and she remained married to him for four years. Her last romantic relationship known to the public was that of Louis Aliot, who was General Secretary of the National Front at the time the relationship began. She stayed with him for 10 years, but they did not marry. The couple broke up in 2019, but they remained on good terms.
