Marion Maréchal-Le Pen: the new wonder-girl of France's far-right

The London Telegraph ^ | December 5, 2015 | Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, Paris

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The niece of Marine Le Pen won her first election at the age of 22 and trounced a former prime minister, Alain Juppe, in a televised debate.

She is the new girl wonder of the French far right, a glamorous 25-year-old poised to break down many mainstream conservatives’ qualms about casting their vote for the Front National.

Since she was elected the youngest MP in French parliamentary history, aged 22 three years ago, while a second year Sorbonne law student, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, niece of Front President Marine and grand-daughter of its obstreperous founder Jean-Marie, has had the fastest learning curve in French politics since Bonaparte’s.

On Sunday, buoyed by the shock of the Nov 13 Islamic shootings in Paris, the list she heads is widely expected to come in first in the Provence-Côte d’Azur region, with polls giving her some 40 per cent of the vote. Even if the third-ranking Socialists drop out of the race to favour her Gaullist opponent in next Sunday’s runoff, Marion, as she’s known, has the most chances to swing into office, giving the Front National a shot at ruling one of France’s most dynamic regions, and the second most populous after Paris.

Her aunt may well lead a Front victory in the North, a depressed region with high unemployment, little prospects for development, and bleak cities like Roubaix and Tourcoing, the French answers to Bradford in terms of a tense ethnic mix. The last authorised polls before Sunday’s vote even gave a lead to the FN in six out of 13 French regions, although this is not expected to translate into many actual victories....

[Lazamataz]

I'd hit it

Get your own catch-phrase.

[Paladin2]

Well, just don’t tell her you are an American.

[Lazamataz]

She’ll never know because we won’t talk much.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’ll bet you love the step-kids even more when they’re away at boarding school.

[Lazamataz]

But of course. The little wretches need to learn discipline.

[Paladin2]

Well, I’d keep the lights on....

[PapaBear3625]

Why do they keep calling ‘far right’. From what I can tell she is a pretty common sense republican.

In Europe, Communists are mainstream. The average Democrat would be considered "far right" in France.

[rmlew]

"I'd hit it" Get your own catch-phrase. D'accord. Je voudrais coucher avec cette femme trois ou quatre fois chaque nuit.

[wally_bert]

The movie she was in wasn’t sweet at all. It was comically awful and would have been fitting for MST3K.

[PapaBear3625]

Keep in mind that "super model" pictures are taken with the model having heavy make up, under perfect lighting, and are then Photoshopped before being made into magazine covers.

This is a candid, unretouched photo of an extremely cute young lady.

[dfwgator]

D'accord. Je voudrais coucher avec cette femme trois ou quatre fois chaque nuit.

Moi aussi.

[rktman]

Laz? Are you using another handle? LOL!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The point being he was eliminated as a threat by means of assassination. It is irrelevant whether he was a communist, populist, fascist, KKK, Democrat, Republican. Socialist. By the way since you label him as a Fascist did that excuse his assassination?

[wally_bert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjQpzfVat0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZjivJ_cXw

[Lazamataz]

Не говорите на французском языке, мы говорим русским здесь

[Lazamataz]

See THAT is the problem with people cribbing my catch-phrase.

[I want the USA back]

She can put her shoes under my bed anytime.

[LibFreeUSA]

"This is a candid, unretouched photo of an extremely cute young lady."

Si Papa.

[Defiant]

I was reading what these guys are pushing for. She’d be a rino here. The French far right is pretty moderate.

[rktman]

LOL! Maybe you need to trademark it. Or copyright it or whatever. Yeah, copyright that’s it. LOL!