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Marine Le Pen
Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen is a French lawyer and politician who served as the president of the far-right National Rally party from 2011 to 2021. She ran for the French presidency in the 2012, 2017, and 2022 presidential elections. Le Pen has been the member of the French National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais since 2017 and also has been parliamentary party leader o…
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politics · French lawyer and politician (born 1968) · politician · lawyer · cadres de la fonction publique · professions libérales et assimilés · jurist · also Marine Le Pen, Pen
Born 5 August 1968 · Q12927
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2026· 19 entries
“The Islamist, Salafist ideology has no right to be in France and should be banned. Preachers of hate should be expelled and their mosques closed.”
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“s image. Photograph: Robert Frankenberg for the Guardian Marine Le Pen says she wants to soften her party”
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“s rights and improving women”
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“The President of the Republic is the president of all the French people, they must bring them all together”
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Public attention spiked: 3,439 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 1,050, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Rescuing orphaned refs ("LeMondeConviction" from rev 1364091776; "France24Conviction" from rev 1364091776; "TelegraphConviction" from rev 1364091776)
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Published video “Ça fait 40 ans qu’on nous dit qu’il faut plus d’immigration…”.
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Public attention spiked: 4,129 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 1,050, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: Reverted 1 pending edit by ~2026-39296-08 to revision 1363243367 by Mirshafie: per consensus
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Published video “Dans quel pays s’attaque-t-on à des personnes âgées ?”.
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Published video “Nous ne nous battons pas pour nous-mêmes. Nous nous battons pour la France.”.
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Published video “Marine Le Pen à La Flèche : "La Cour d'appel m'a rendu mon éligibilité !"”.
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Published video “Oui, je suis candidate à l'élection présidentielle.”.
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Public attention spiked: 34,843 Wikipedia readers in one day, 33.2× the usual 1,050, with 14 article edits. Editors noted: clarifying that NR and NF are the same party, and adding the word "French" to the front of "National Assembly" to more obviously differentiate it from "National
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Published video “Ils n’ont pas protégé Louis…”.
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Published video “Marine Le Pen à Liévin, son discours en intégralité”.
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Published video “Le Grand Entretien, l'interview exclusive de Marine Le Pen sur LCI”.
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Published video “Le grand entretien avec Darius Rochebin”.
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Published video “Le grand Entretien avec Darius Rochebin”.
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Her guilt was upheld, but the sentences were suspended or reduced, allowing her to run in 2027
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2025· 1 entry
Le Pen and 20 National Front members were convicted of embezzlement for misappropriating over €4 million European Parliament funds to fund National Front staff
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2024· 11 entries
Reported claimRated This isn’t correct. Ms Le Pen was filmed crying with laughter while taking part in a radio show in 2017. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “An image and video clip shows Marine Le Pen crying after her party, the National Rally, came third in the French National Assembly elections.” This isn’t correct. Ms Le Pen was filmed crying with laughter while taking part in a radio show in 2017..
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Reported claimRated This isn’t what the map shows. It actually depicts the results of the 2024 European Parliament elections in France. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A map shows the results of the first round of parliamentary elections in France, where Marine Le Pen’s party won “almost everywhere” bar Paris.” This isn’t what the map shows. It actually depicts the results of the 2024 European Parliament elections in France..
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Image shows politician Marine Le Pen crying after the French election” False.
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The Quint rated the claim “National Rally's Marine Le Pen cried after losing elections.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Image Shows Marine Le Pen Having A Meltdown After Losing 2024 French Elections” Laughing.
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fact checker rated the claim “Marine Le Pen meltdown upon losing the French election.” misleading.
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FACTLY rated the claim “The video of France’s right-wing leader Marine Le Pen crying after her party’s defeat in France elections, 2024” FALSE.
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fact checker rated the claim “an image shows a group of people protesting in France against the victory of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election.” misleading.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Marine Le Pen said she will save France from new world order and Macron will be arrested” Made-Up Story.
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Le Pen once again stood for re-election in Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency in the 2024 French legislative election
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2024).
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2022· 4 entries
Reported claimRated France 2, which showed the erroneous graph, has confirmed the inconsistency in figures was due to a technical glitch. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A French news channel showed during the count for the presidential election that Marine Le Pen had more votes than Emmanuel Macron, but her votes were later reduced, suggesting electoral fraud.” France 2, which showed the erroneous graph, has confirmed the inconsistency in figures was due to a technical glitch..
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AP News rated the claim “The number of votes for French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen decreased from 14.4 million during a live count to 13.3 million when her defeat was declared.” False.
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2022–2024).
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In the 2022 French legislative election, Le Pen stood for re-election in Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency
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2021· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the departmental council of Pas-de-Calais (2021–2025).
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2020· 1 entry
Announced her third candidacy for the presidency in the 2022 election
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2019· 1 entry
It was reported that Le Pen no longer wants France to leave the European Union, nor for it to leave the euro currency
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2017· 3 entries
In the 2017 French legislative election, Le Pen once again stood in Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency
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Le Pen argued that France as a nation bore no responsibility for the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, in which Paris policemen arrested Jewish citizens for deportation to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (2017–2022).
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2016· 4 entries
Career landmark: conseiller régional des Hauts-de-France (2016–2021).
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Politico named her the second-most influential MEP in the European Parliament, after President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz
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Politico ranked her as the second most influential MEP after Martin Schulz
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“s victory in the US presidential election would help her, saying that Trump had”
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2015· 1 entry
“not against immigrants, but against immigration”
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2014· 6 entries
Le Pen led the party to further electoral advances in the municipal and senatorial elections: eleven mayors and two senators were elected, with the FN entering the upper chamber for the first time
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (2014–2017).
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The American magazine Foreign Policy mentioned her, along with four other French people, in its list of the 100 global thinkers of the year, underlining the way she "renovated the image" of her party, which had become a
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Had failed due to UKIP and the Sweden Democrats refusing to join, as well as some controversial statements from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Despite European Union sanctions placed on Russia following the annexation of Crimea
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The Criminal Court of Bethune found Marine Le Pen guilty of electoral fraud, for producing and distributing flyers during the 2012 election purporting to be from electoral opponent Jean-Luc Mélenchon, calling for 'Arab'
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2012· 3 entries
Explained: "The FN vote is made up of the victims of globalisation
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Placed third in the presidential election with 17
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In the 2012 election, Le Pen, now leader of the FN, stood in Pas-de-Calais' 11th constituency, which now contained Henin-Beaumont following redistricting, where she had got her best results in the presidential election
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2011· 2 entries
“ll lead the Front National into the battle for republican values in France Angelique Chrisafis in Paris Mon 21 Mar 2011 15.48 EDT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google M arine Le Pen surveys the mountain of letters on her desk, complaining she”
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Career landmark: party leader (2011–2021).
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2010· 5 entries
Election won: 2010–11: Leadership election.
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Campaign: 2010–11: Leadership election.
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“s program but about showing it as it really is, instead of the image given to it by the media in the previous decades. The media and her political adversaries are accused of spreading an”
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Le Pen expressed her intention to run for leader of the FN, saying that she hoped to make the party "a big popular party that addresses itself not only to the electorate on the right but to all the French people"
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In the 2010 elections, Marine Le Pen led the FN regional list in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the departmental list in Pas-de-Calais
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2009· 3 entries
Election lost: 2009 Hénin-Beaumont by-election.
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Campaign: 2009 Hénin-Beaumont by-election.
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (2009–2014).
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2008· 8 entries
Since 2001, Gérard Dalongeville has been the Mayor of Hénin-Beaumont, an economically deprived town in a former coal mining area
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Steeve Briois was the FN top candidate with Le Pen in second position
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“The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation.”
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“We are fighting against Islamism, not Islam. Islamism is the will to impose Shariah for all as civil, political and religious law. … In reality, it's asking French people to increasingly submit themselves to the Muslim religion. That goes totally against the secular principles of the French republic.”
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“Every minute, every instant, from Brittany to Corsica and from Lille to Strasbourg, the French look around them, and ask themselves: Where am I?”
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“The immigrationist religion is an insult for human beings, whose integrity is always bound to one national community, one language, one culture.”
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“Now, the dividing line is not between left and right but globalists and patriots.”
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“Opis: Marine Le Pen złamała kość krzyżową po upadku do pustego basenu.”
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2007· 2 entries
In the 2007 election, Le Pen and her substitute Steeve Briois stood for the FN in the Pas-de-Calais' 14th constituency, Hénin-Beaumont, a former coal mining area with high unemployment
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With responsibility for training, communication and publicity
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2006· 1 entry
Managed the presidential campaign of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen
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2004· 3 entries
In the 2004 elections, she led the FN regional list in Île-de-France and the departmental list in Hauts-de-Seine
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (2004–2009).
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Career landmark: member of the regional council of Île-de-France (2004–2010).
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2002· 1 entry
Stood in the 2002 election in Pas-de-Calais' 13th constituency, Lens, an economically deprived socialist stronghold
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2000· 2 entries
Married Eric Lorio in 2002, the former national secretary of the National Front and a former adviser to the Regional election in Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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Became president of Generations Le Pen, a loose association close to the party which aimed at "de-demonizing the Front National"
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1998· 2 entries
When she was elected a Regional Councillor for Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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In the 1998 elections, she was included in the FN list in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and was a regional councillor for six years (1998–2004)
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1995· 1 entry
Le Pen married Franck Chauffroy, a business executive who worked for the National Front
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1993· 1 entry
Le Pen first stood for parliament in the 1993 legislative election, in Paris' 16th constituency (17th arrondissement of Paris)
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1991· 1 entry
And a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in criminal law in 1992
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1984· 1 entry
“the most awful, cruel, crushing of pains of the heart: my mother did not love me.”
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1976· 1 entry
When Marine was eight, a bomb meant for her father exploded in the stairwell outside the family's apartment as they slept
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-08-05.
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