Marine Le Pen

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Marine Le Pen (born Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen, on August 5, 1968 at Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French National Front (FN) politician; a lawyer by profession, she is mainly known for being Jean-Marie Le Pen's daughter.

[edit] Life and career

A mother of three from her first marriage, she was divorced and married Éric Iorio, an important member of her party. Le Pen ran in the 2004 French regional elections in the Île-de-France région. She has been one of eight vice presidents of the FN since April 2003.

Marine Le Pen is generally considered to represent a newer, softer tendency in the FN party.

Since she joined the FN party, she has advocated tolerance for abortion and homosexuality, which has notably angered some of the more traditional Catholic voters, while her increased presence in the FN might have increased votes from France's Jewish population because of her comments about anti-Semitism being unacceptable in modern French society.

Marine Le Pen was part of the "TSM" current inside the FN (Tout sauf Mégret, Anybody But Mégret) during the 1990s crisis, along with Samuel Maréchal, Jean-Claude Martinez, Roger Holeindre, the Catholic current represented by Bernard Antony and Bruno Gollnisch, and Martine Lehideux ^[1].

Since 2002 she has been the president of Generations Le Pen, an organization close to the FN, which aims "to promote the thought and works of Jean-Marie Le Pen" among youth. She was elected to the European Parliament in the 2004 elections and is now a Non-Inscrit in the Parliament.

In 2006 Jean-Marie Le Pen turned over to her the management of the presidential campaign.

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• Portrayal in the Jerusalem Report