This is Marine Le Pen, the right-wing politician in France

On Sunday, after the results were announced where the far-right had the preference in the elections to the European Chamber, the legislative body of the European Union, French President Emmanuel Macron decided to dissolve the National Assembly and call for early legislative elections.

The winning party was the National Rally (RN, for its French acronym), led by the right-wing Marine Le Pen and who has sought the presidency of France since 2012, also contending in 2017 and 2022.

In these last two he lost in the second round against Macron.

Le Pen, at least since 2017, hopes to be a leading figure in a radical reordering of the global elite, which includes former President Donald Trump, Brexiteers in the United Kingdom and other right-wing politicians, according to Al Jazeera.

Origin and link with the extreme right

In 2017, the BBC published an in-depth profile of the far-right leader in France, detailing that her political awakening came when she was eight years old and survived a bomb attack at her home in Paris.

His father, leader of the formerly called National Front, was part of the extreme right that included extreme anti-Semitism, which even denied the Holocaust.

Although the mystery of the attack that occurred in 1976 remains unsolved, for Le Pen it changed everything.

The NPR media outlet points out that his family moved to a mansion where his father had the party offices on the ground floor, while they lived upstairs, so he was always in contact with his political agenda.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, a former combatant of the Algerian war, was a figure that Le Pen began to idealize, but he was strongly criticized for his ideology.

For this reason, he joined the National Front at the age of 18 and while practicing law, he began to gain ground in the party by competing in regional elections. She held political positions in regional and municipal councils and in 2009 she reached the European Parliament, when her father resigned from the leadership and she took over.

Little by little he began to distance himself from his father, expelling him from the party in 2015 to make it more “edible” to conservatives and young people.

Currently, academics and legislators from Macron’s party interviewed by Politico agree that the National Rally program should be fought from the political platform. Since Le Pen has managed to present herself in political normality, without denouncing the racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia of the party in its early years.

Returning to the statements of journalist Valery Lerouge in 2022, it is suggested that the party belongs to the nationalist right, with an agenda against migrants and that it appears to have broken with the anti-Semitism of its father, but is approaching Islamophobia, when Muslims represent 10 percent of the population.

‘Prepared to assume power’

Marine Le Pen affirmed that they are prepared “to assume power” in the legislative elections that President Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday after his defeat in the European elections.

“We are ready to assume power if the French give us their confidence,” Le Pen assured her enraged followers after her party achieved just over 30% of the votes, according to exit polls.