But a lot of the benefits of being an EU citizen are either taken for granted or go unnoticed. The jihadist attacks on Paris and Nice are part of it. A political player in France for years, her message - anti-immigration, anti-EU - is consistent and unchanged. According to the TNS poll even French voters – divided in another survey recently – are 59 to 41 per cent against British departure. But since Briois came to power the only things that have changed are that the taxes have come down and the place is better run. 42:21. Marine owes Jean-Marie. Marine carried on living at the Le Pen estate into her 40s, in a bungalow in the grounds. But today things are switching over.”. '”, Bomb damage at Villa Poirier, Paris, 1976(Getty Images). Heir apparent of French far-right an enthusiastic recruiter for her aunt, Marine Le Pen Mon, Jul 8, 2019, 11:58 Updated: Mon, Jul 8, 2019, 12:01 David Keohane in Lyon It has been seen as a way to humanize her party. The argument is often made that the FN today is taking over where the old French Communist Party (PC) left off. Part of the reason for the alarm is that the FN has always had a terrible press. Ce mercredi 16 novembre, Marine le Pen préside la cérémonie d’inauguration du QG de sa campagne, situé dans le 8ème arrondissement de Paris. The direct . Only once - between 1986 and 1988 when there was a brief period of proportional representation - have they had more than one or two deputies in the National Assembly. Emmanuel Macron: Polls show Marine Le Pen's popularity rising Sign up to receive our rundown of the day's top stories direct to your inbox SUBSCRIBE Invalid email And Marine has no allies, which makes election success all the harder. Pierrette and Jean-Marie Le Pen shortly before their split in 1984(Getty Images), In her autobiography A contre flots (Against the Waves) Marine states: “For a month and a half I vomited every day. And they are far from being natural FN voters. But for the FN's enemies, the nation-first answer is wrong, dangerous and a betrayal of France's mission to the world. She hides the Islamophobia. She has been making the gesture a lot recently. With me involved she would be on 35%,” he says. The beggars are locals. Pejorative adjectives like cassant (brittle) and clivant (divisive) are commonly applied. “In this family, politics is stronger than blood,” says journalist Olivier Beaumont, author of a book on the Le Pens. Montretout is a three-storey, mid-19th Century pile in a gated community on a hill above the Seine that overlooks Paris from the west. Five kilograms of dynamite had been placed on the landing outside the apartment at 9 Villa Poirier. The 1871 Paris Commune was followed by the anti-Semitic Dreyfus affair in 1894. Such an idea would have been laughable just a few years ago. Despite having kept a somewhat low profile in recent months, the leader of the far-right National Rally has reason to be confident. Life is not a smooth tranquil stream. Meanwhile, in the bungalow, there now resides his former wife Pierrette, mother of the three girls. And two, I am authoritarian, and they would like to be too.”. Consumer protection is a key benefit of the EU’s single market, and ensures members of the British public receive equal consumer rights when shopping anywhere in Europe. Later he fought in France's last imperial wars - Indochina, Suez, Algeria - and became its youngest member of parliament behind the shopkeeper-turned-populist leader Pierre Poujade. For 60 years I have rowed against the current. She lost school-friends, whose parents were too scared now to let them near her “dangerous” father. The North Africans are still on their market stalls.”. She has been the member of the National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais's 11th constituency since 2017. I was incapable of feeding myself… What I suffered was the most awful, cruel, crushing of pains of the heart: my mother did not love me.”, Marine Le Pen's inner toughness stems from this ultimate desertion, as much as the bombing. Jean-Marie Le Pen once said that “communists are good patriots who just don't know it”, and it is obvious in Henin-Beaumont that the same working-class people who once voted far left now feel the FN is their natural home. The final break came in April 2015, when in an interview on French radio Jean-Marie Le Pen did what Marine had long feared he would do. Marine Le Pen était ce matin l'invitée de « Bourdin Direct » sur RMC et BFMTV : Related Videos. Despite their falling out, was he nonetheless happy at her success? For Marine, who sometimes says she wishes she could give it all up and open a cattery, it was all too much. Some of his posters are deliberately provocative, and he once drew up an ethnic list of the town's schools, revealing that two-thirds of children were Muslim. But just as much is the popular disillusionment with the Paris and Brussels elites, and the growing fear of what they call in France le déclassement - the loss of economic and social status. PARIS — Far-right French presidential Marine Le Pen has a simple a message she wants to get across to the country’s gay community: Cast a vote … “The UK is our best advertisement,” says Marine's friend Jean-Lin Lacapelle. The soft-spoken Briois is popular in the town. Her title for the autobiography - Against the Waves - nods to the favourite Le Pen image of the battling sailor. The FN has no experience when it comes to taking on the task of government. Marine Le Pen talks with practised confidence. “It is very symbolic. I have never particularly studied the issue, but I believe they are a point of detail in the history of World War Two.”, Marine and Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2014 before their estrangement(Getty Images). “We are making big gains in the civil service,” continues Lacapelle - Marine Le Pen's close friend. But wasn't he hinting that the gas chambers were insignificant? She and her father were 100m apart but communicating via intermediaries. And two different political traditions are now feeding into party's electorate. The state school system - in which large numbers of children speak more Arabic than French - needs urgent attention. Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right, and hardline Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin are to clash Thursday evening on public TV channel France 2 … Then it came back in 2015. In September 1987 a dark moment became a turning-point in the party's history. Marine Le Pen says she is “not against immigrants, but against immigration” - because any nation needs first to look after the people who are its citizens. For Laurent Joffrin, editor of left-wing daily Liberation, the FN still favours the insider and scapegoats the outsider. Its critics strenuously argue the party's ethos is unchanged. According to Marion: “I am from the generation of the anti-May 1968. She has battled successfully through the first round of France's presidential election and will now face centrist Emmanuel Macron in the final run-off on 7 May. Today Montretout is home on the second floor to Jean-Marie's second daughter Yann, mother of the rising young FN star Marion Marechal Le Pen. “It is about universal values,” says Liberation's Joffrin. On a walkabout on the famous promenade he is buttonholed by well-wisher after well-wisher, among them an Algerian boutique owner. Marine Le Pen and Marion Marechal Le Pen in 2016(Getty Images). Keep it French. Only once - between 1986 and 1988 when there was a brief period of proportional representation - have they had more than one or two deputies in the National Assembly. “Ok. Most noticeably it is on social matters that Marine Le Pen is a million miles from the caricature of the far-right traditionalist. Ms Atkinson, Euro MP for south east England, was expelled from UKIP in March last year after her chief of staff was alleged to have tried to inflate her European Parliament expenses. If elected to the … (Getty Images). In his reply, the FN chief was at his ambiguous worst: “I do not say that the gas chambers did not exist. Considered one of the so-called four pillars of the European Union, this freedom allows all EU citizens to live, work and travel in other member states. There were Arabs there, pieds-noirs, and metropolitan French. Never once have we had the wind at our backs! A downward tug of the right arm, fist clenched, in imitation of a person playing a one-armed bandit. It is a total breakdown. Do the words National Front and Le Pen have a perpetual power to alienate? Marine Le Pen has asserted that neither she nor her party want France's withdrawal from the eurozone. As a member of the EU, UK citizens benefit from freedom of movement across the continent. “In every country we are confronted with the same question - how do you integrate millions of immigrants? Jean-Marie Le Pen with daughters Marie-Caroline, Yann and Marine in the mid-1990s(Getty Images). Clairvaux-les-Lacs, France, February 2017 Ms Le Pen, whose arrival is unlikely to delight mainstream Brexiteers, will appear alongside the former UKIP Euro MP, Janice Atkinson, who belongs to the same group as the French Front National in Strasbourg. In an FN-run France, walls go up. Marine Le Pen is often judged to be generally more moderate than her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. Things happen. Now she has softened her tone, saying she does not regard Islam as “incompatible” with French democracy. We are the number one party for the working class. The EU - for Le Pen - was one of the great betrayals. They know exactly what it means. And the place was a disaster,” he says. My generation is reacting against all the ideological deconstruction that happened after the student rebellion. We are now the number one party among the youth. Maybe his real raison d'etre was to be a perpetual gadfly on the back of the French body politic, irritating but irrelevant. All of this created a sense of injustice. No indeed, one thing we never got used to was the easy life!”. But what about the question of le détail? The franc returns, and France comes first. “In the police and army, and we are not doing badly among small business-owners. Philippot, her close adviser, has his own YouTube channel where he appears in an office kitchen dubbed the Marine cafe, railing against the latest factory closure or European free-trade deal. And populist we like too.”. That's not exactly every day! The Le Pen family mansion - MontretoutSt Cloud, near Paris. For years the party's far-right views were regarded by the French media as toxic, but the boycott is history. The persistent accusation is that in its modern, “normalised” form the party is not being entirely frank - that in private, members are far more bigoted than they ever let on openly, and that their public discourse is in some way coded. The FN has also tried to build bridges with the Jewish community. The influence of her generation is key. Without that toughness, she could not have pushed the FN to its current unprecedented heights. Instead of sympathy, there was hostility. , southern France(EPA). “A few years ago when I first interviewed Marine Le Pen, I got a kind of frisson with the hairs sticking up at the back of my neck. Jean-Jacques Bourdin reçoit Marine Le Pen, présidente du Front National. As the presidential election draws near, Florian Philippot, Nicolas Bay, David Rachline, her partner Louis Aliot, and a handful of others saturate the morning TV talk shows. Out here in the sticks, people adore the fact that she is so hated by the establishment in Paris. Police have since decided to take no further action. “It is remarkable what he has done. I never personally saw them. Bombs explode. Not national-ist. That is why this national ideology is returning.”, But our duty is to go above that - to think of the values that matter for all human beings. People feel poor. Her mother left without explanation, and Marine had no contact with her for the next 15 years. Indeed it was Pierrette's sudden disappearance when Marine was 16 that formed the second trauma in the FN leader's life. Freedom to travel is one of the most exercised benefits of EU membership, with Britons having made 31 million visits to the EU in 2014 alone. Meanwhile, a new opinion poll for the French centre-right newspaper Le Figaro shows large to overwhelming majorities against Brexit in four large, continental EU nations. Marine Le Pen ran for election to the presidency in 2012. But he is popular in Beziers, a town built on wine wealth from the late 19th Century. “That these people are in some essential way different, and therefore dangerous to national unity,” he says. He is an énarque. Over the years there were further verbal provocations, and he amassed more than 15 separate convictions in the courts. And we all got along. Vidéo : Marine Le Pen tacle Laurent Wauquiez en direct /video-marine-le-pen-tacle-laurent-wauqu. This is her sixth year as leader of a party traditionally seen as far-right. His attempt to set up a volunteer civilian militia to patrol the town's streets was struck down by the courts. A cordon sanitaire was created around us - don't go near the Le Pens.”. More and more the girls were left to their own devices. Or as he might have put it: “Events, mon cher ami, events.”, The women pressured to give up their children. On the same subject. Beziers has been transformed by immigration, with many town-centre houses now divided into flats and inhabited by people of Maghrebi (North African) origin. It was vaudeville,” says a former senior adviser to Marine, who asks not to be identified. Almost directly due south and 600 miles away, the historic town of Beziers is another FN stronghold. “She does not have right-wing reflexes. In daughter as in father there is the same pugnacity - ready for a scrap with a hostile world. The French far right leader Marine Le Pen is to come to Britain in the next couple of weeks to campaign for Brexit. Marine Le Pen has been closing the gap with Macron in recent weeks (Image: GETTY) However, Ms Saroya added that France continues to suffer an … “I concede that the FN label shocks some people. The roots of his tempestuous career are at the end of World War Two, when Jean-Marie felt that the national story, dominated by the movement of liberation hero Charles de Gaulle, and by the Communists, was a sham. It has cataracts, it has obstacles.”, “I am accustomed to adversity. “If you are called Le Pen, eventually politics will come and catch you,” says her niece Marion Marechal Le Pen. Ms Le Pen’s presence on the Brexit campaign is likely to irritate UKIP and other pro-departure campaigners.The UKIP leader Nigel Farage has fallen out with Le Pen in recent years and has described her party as racist and anti-semitic. That I can identify with.”, Steeve Briois in Henin-Beaumont(Getty Images). Live-tweet @MardiPolicy #MardiPol. 4. He moves more slowly than he used to, and he is a little hard of hearing. “Do they exist or not? We are the number one party for farmers.”. He's willing to talk at length about his daughter Marine. Like all of this region, Henin-Beaumont has always voted left. The wartime Vichy regime was followed by the fighting in Algeria. Her father ran for election to the presidency unsuccessfully five times between 1974 and 2007, losing to Socialist François Mitterrand and his allies, and Republican Jacques Chirac and his allies. But time and again Jean-Marie grabbed the headlines with incendiary statements. Jean-Jacques Bourdin reçoit Marine Le Pen, présidente du Front National et Eurodéputée. At this point he is laughing his head off. Derelict industrial buildingHenin-Beaumont, northern France. Voters in Poland, surprisingly in view of the large number of Poles living in Britain, were the most lukewarm of the countries polled. The détail. The Socialists are right-wing. Marine Le Pen is a French lawmaker, and the youngest daughter of the French National Front party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen. She repeated her support for Moscow's annexation of Crimea, and her opposition to the sanctions subsequently imposed by the EU. (Getty Images). Largely under his influence, the FN has shifted its economic policies to overt protection of the working class. “It is life! She ended up doing business solely for the party. Jean-Marie himself puts it more crudely: “She is me with breasts!”. In its economic plan the FN has swung far to the left, with anti-austerity and protectionist policies that are a clear signal to the working class. But now people are coming back. On the outskirts is an estate called La Deveze, which has a reputation for drugs, arms-trafficking and radical Islam. “Maybe by getting rid of me she wanted to make some kind of gesture to the establishment. Marine was the third and last Le Pen daughter, and her parents may well have been hoping for a boy. But Jean-Marie seems happier talking about the past. For the party's Steeve Briois, “far-right is not a term we accept. She refused to join the movement against gay marriage, which brought millions on to the streets in 2013, and she has several gay advisers, notably Florian Philippot. Jean-Marie Le Pen with daughters Yann and Marine, early 1970s In their biography of the man, Pierre Pean and Philippe Cohen call it “the day Le Pen became Le Pen”. And left-wing people are the opposite. We want principles, values, mentors - everything in fact that negates May '68. There is no discrimination. In Henin-Beaumont, a few miles south of Lille, Marine's friend Steeve Briois has been mayor since 2014. More profoundly she came to understand that she and her family were different - they would never be treated as normal people. Events too have worked in the FN's favour. Watch for les évènements, he says. The mystery of who tried to kill Jean-Marie Le Pen and his family on the night of 1 November 1976 is still unsolved. Iman Mestaoui, a 25-year-old clothes designer of Moroccan parents, sees Marine Le Pen as merely a more presentable version of her father. But with Marine at the helm things are changing. Marine Le Pen working as a lawyer, 1995(Getty Images). What everyone would agree on is that the FN has built its programme around the idea of the nation - “national” identity and values. As she tried to make her way as a lawyer she was boycotted by many of her contemporaries who objected to her father's politics. Brexit and Donald Trump's victory are two pieces of news that FN strategists could have dreamed of only in their wildest imaginings. But one question keeps coming back. Worse, Jean-Marie reacted to the hostility by digging in further. In fact they dote on each other. She learned to cope. In other words he went to the ENA, the administration school that churns out members of the French establishment and, most importantly, he is a man of the nationalist left. And we are doing the job OK. It was all: Produce in France. There were parties and endless dinners for Jean-Marie's cronies. The parents of James Foley, the journalist beheaded by Islamic State in 2014, have reacted with dismay after France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen tweeted an image of his decapitated body. But what left more of an impression was his utter wipe-out in round two. A simultaneous poll in the UK put the two sides almost neck and neck – 38 percent for the EU, 34 per cent against and 28 per cent undecided.
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