In the shadow of Jean-Marie. At 48, Marine Le Pen is a twice-divorced mother of three. She has regularly pleaded for the privacy of her children, seeking to protect them from the spotlight. Her relationship with her father, however, has been the subject of much media scrutiny.
Read More. A bomb explosion at the family's Paris apartment when she was 8 made her aware of her father's notoriety. And after her parents' divorce, she began spending more and more time at her father's office.
Her talent for public speaking led her to study law, and in , to a role as a legal adviser to her father's party. As she rose through the National Front's ranks -- becoming vice-president, a member of the European Parliament and then a member of Parliament in France -- she she also tried to soften the party's image. Trial Try full digital access and see why over 1 million readers subscribe to the FT.
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More than any other issue, the vote is united around the issue of immigration which aggregates almost all Rassemblement National voters, whatever their disagreements may be on other subjects such as the economy.
My research has shown just how crucial this point has been in building support for the far-right in this region since It is strongly linked with cultural, cultural, economic or historical markers of identity in the region. And unlike in other parts of France , in PACA there is a strong correlation between areas with higher rates of immigration and those where there is a significant far-right vote.
The other key point lies in the rejection of Islam in its most visible forms among far-right voters, notably women who wear the veil and the presence of halal shops.
Today this community is ageing and the historical trauma is gradually fading, but the connections have left their mark and their votes often goes to the extreme right.
National Rally supporters are also particularly susceptible to conspiracy theories, with more than a third believing in the existence of a global Zionist plot, another survey found. In January, Le Pen unveiled a counterproposal that, among other provisions, proposed banning Muslim women from wearing the veil in public, a favorite far-right theme that the NR has continued to hammer on in recent months.
As early as , Macron chose to give an interview to Valeurs Actuelles , a far-right magazine. Le Pen parried by saying that she had no problem with Islam , only with Islamism , but both politicians were relying on this definitional boundary being fuzzy in French political discourse.
Setting the political agenda will never be enough for those in the National Rally who covet institutional power, and Le Pen and her allies, including Bardella, will see their standing weaken if that does not materialize. As Faury told me, the NR lacks a robust internal democracy and ways of resolving factional tensions. And, again unlike Bardella, she will have kept her distance from the result in , if it turns out adverse. The battle of ideas, of course, matters more, and many observers fear that the National Rally has already won it.
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