Who did Macron defeat?
The 2017 French presidential election was held on 23 April and 7 May 2017. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates, Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN), which Macron won by a decisive margin.
How many times has Le Pen Run for President?
Le Pen ran in the French presidential elections in 1974, 1988, 1995, 2002, and 2007. As noted above, he was not able to run for office in 1981, having failed to gather the necessary 500 signatures of elected officials.
How many children does Marine Le Pen have?
She was a member of the Bar of Paris until 1998, when she joined the legal department of the National Front. Le Pen was raised Roman Catholic. In 1995, she married Franck Chauffroy, a business executive who worked for the National Front. She has three children with Chauffroy (Jehanne, Louis, and Mathilde).
When did Marine Le Pen and Eric Lorio divorce?
After her divorce from Chauffroy in 2000, she 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. They divorced in 2006. From 2009 until 2019, she was in a relationship with Louis Aliot, who is of ethnic French Pied-Noir and Algerian Jewish heritage.
When did Marine Le Pen launch her candidacy?
Le Pen launched her candidacy on 4 and 5 February 2017 in Lyon, promising a referendum on France’s membership of the European Union if she could not achieve her territorial, monetary, economic and legislative goals for the country within six months renegotiation with the EU.
What are the political positions of Marine Le Pen?
Political positions. Le Pen is opposed to globalization, which she blames for various negative economic trends, and opposes European Union supranationalism and federalism, instead favouring a loosely confederate ‘Europe of the Nations’. She has called for France to leave the Eurozone and for a referendum on France leaving the EU.