It’s easy to see parallels between President Donald Trump and France’s presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. They’re both populist politicians who have railed against free trade, talk tough on immigration, have questioned the role of NATO, and advocate closer ties to Russia. But Anderson ...
In 2011, Marine Le Pen became the most powerful female extreme right leader in Europe. She took over as the new leader of the French National Front after her father, the party's founder Jean Marie Le Pen, stepped down citing age and health reasons. Since then she has transformed the ...
HENIN-BEAUMONT, FRANCE - JUNE 28: Election posters of Marine Le Pen (outgoing MP), Steeve Briois (mayor of Hénin-Beaumont) and Jordan Bardella are displayed in the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais on June 28, 2024 in Hénin-Beaumont, France. Posters with images of legisl...
Marine Le Pen, the RN figurehead who has challenged Macron in his two successful presidential runs, added her group is “asking (Bayrou) to do what his predecessor was unwilling to do: listen to the opposition to build a reasonable, well-considered budget.” “Any other policy that would si...
Marine Le Pen, president of National Rally, right, during a no-confidence debate at the National Assembly in Paris, France, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. A government collapse leaves the outgoing administration acting in a caretaker capacity to manage current affairs and avoid a shutdown. ...
Jordan Bardella (L) and Marine Le Pen (R) at the 18th Congress of France’s Rassemblement Nationale, Paris, November 2022 (Alain Jocard/Getty) Editor’s Note: France goes to the polls on Sunday in a snap election called by President Emmanuel Macron, three weeks after his party suffered ...
Marine Le Pen is not the emperor, her National Rally party having been prevented from forming a government in France bya tacit allianceof the Left, Far-Left, and “Center-Right” last July. But she does appear to have new clothes. Regrettably, however, her new clothes consist of an obvio...
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence. The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said the charges were issued for “distribution of violent images.” If the case eventually reac...
Marine Le Pen’s French-first, Islam-skeptic nationalism resonated widely in the wake of Donald Trump’s election and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.
bourgeois political elites is transforming into ardent support for Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front party. The paper considers how and why gendered political symbolism answers class grievances. It also considers how disenchantment with bourgeois party politics has unintentionally merged ...