Marine Le Pen
Also Le Pen
French politician born in 1968, the leading figure of the far-right Front national, renamed Rassemblement national; she led the party from 2011 to 2021.
Marine Le Pen was born on August 5, 1968, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She is the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the Front national. She became party president in 2011, renamed the Front national the Rassemblement national (RN) during her tenure, and stepped down as party president in 2021.
In the HFR forum discussions read by this site, some users argued that the one who stood to profit from this wave of riots was Le Pen herself.
Sources
- Marine Le Pen (Wikipedia (French), accessed 2026-10-22)
In our stories
Al Jazeera reported that with the presidential vote due in April 2027, Marine Le Pen leads the polls, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is second, and Macron cannot run again because of the two-term limit.
From the petrol pump to the school gate: how the anger built up →
On the far right, Le Pen blamed delinquents from the banlieues, and National Rally president Jordan Bardella demanded that antifa and Black Bloc groups be designated terrorist organisations.
Who is to blame? The government, LFI and a leak →
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