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Fresh-faced star of France's far right is candidate of steel
Associated Press ^ | 12/112015 | Elaine Ganley

Posted on 12/12/2015 2:31:00 PM PST by simpson96

PARIS (AP)-- She's the youngest French lawmaker and in an election this weekend could become the youngest president of a powerful region.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen, 26, is the fresh-faced rising star of the far-right National Front, using a soft touch to deliver hard messages on migrants and Muslims that outdo her tough-talking aunt, party leader Marine Le Pen.

The stakes in Sunday's vote for leadership councils in 13 French regions are high. If the two Le Pens win their regions, the anti-immigration National Front will shatter France's current political landscape - and Marine Le Pen will boost her chances in France's 2017 presidential campaign.

Both women performed so well in the Dec. 6 first-round vote that the beleaguered governing Socialists pulled out their candidates and ordered supporters to cast ballots for the rival conservatives.

It was a deft move - and now nothing is assured. Two polls released Wednesday showed both Le Pens losing their races, meaning they have just days to redouble their efforts.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls, a Socialist campaigning for weeks against the National Front, played the ultimate fear card Friday, saying on France-Inter radio that "the extreme right advocates division ... that could lead to civil war."

In the meantime, the golden girl with long blonde locks running in southern France appears undaunted by the task.

With a soft voice and poised demeanor, Marechal-Le Pen lambasts the nation's top politicians, once taking the floor in parliament to castigate the prime minister's "brainless contempt' of her party. She derides France's policy on migrants and tells Muslims they must conform to France's Christian tradition if they want to be citizens.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: france; french; lepen; marinelepen; marionmarechallepen; nationalfront
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1 posted on 12/12/2015 2:31:00 PM PST by simpson96
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2 posted on 12/12/2015 2:32:43 PM PST by simpson96
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Laz?


3 posted on 12/12/2015 2:33:25 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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4 posted on 12/12/2015 2:34:15 PM PST by simpson96
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12 on a scale of 1 to 10.


5 posted on 12/12/2015 2:34:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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And she's a conservative?


6 posted on 12/12/2015 2:36:38 PM PST by McGruff (I don't know if sand can glow in the dark, but we’re going to find out - Ted Cruz)
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And smart too!

In the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d`Azur (South) for example, 26-year-old Marion Marechal Le Pen, Marine Le Pen's niece, has promised to make big cuts to the French equivalent of planned parenthood and will not fund structures dedicated to contemporaneous art (=NEA) stating: "10 hipsters who pretend to be amazed in front of two red dots on a canvas because the speculative market has said that this artist has value is frankly not my conception of a cultural policy."
7 posted on 12/12/2015 2:36:59 PM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back - Donald Trump)
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Would you hit it?


8 posted on 12/12/2015 2:37:11 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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Not guilty!


10 posted on 12/12/2015 2:38:49 PM PST by jimbo123
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Brings new meaning to, “Boots on the Ground” :)


11 posted on 12/12/2015 2:39:16 PM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back - Donald Trump)
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If Les Pens are mightier than Les Socialists, the days of glory will have returned to France. Liberty, Equality, Sorority!


12 posted on 12/12/2015 2:41:31 PM PST by Bluestocking
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oooooooh la-la!


13 posted on 12/12/2015 2:41:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Dayum!


14 posted on 12/12/2015 2:43:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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I’m not surprised if the National Front doesn’t go beyond the First round elections (similar to primaries) but it is a shot across the bow for sure.


15 posted on 12/12/2015 2:44:54 PM PST by erlayman
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She’s young, she’s French and she’s HOT!


16 posted on 12/12/2015 2:50:57 PM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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Wish we had more like her here -— “We are not a land of Islam,” she said at a rally in Toulon. Muslims can be French citizens “only on condition that they bend to the customs and the way of life that Greek, Roman and 16 centuries of Christianity fashioned.”


17 posted on 12/12/2015 2:51:13 PM PST by simpson96
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That picture conveys a silent message from young Marion Marechal-Le Pen to the Muslims in France:

These boots are made for walking
And that’s just what they’ll do
One of these days these boots
Are gonna walk all over you


18 posted on 12/12/2015 2:54:35 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruz or lose! Do TG & Boogieman have to be asses every day?)
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19 posted on 12/12/2015 2:54:41 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy" 6Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Typical leftist tactics. When they see they’re in danger, they manipulate the process.


20 posted on 12/12/2015 2:54:47 PM PST by Bratch
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