10 things you didn't know about Marine Le Pen
Very often criticized for his political positions, we know very little about his private life.
Marine Le Pen has been in the French political landscape from a very young age, in particular because she was exposed very early in the media to be the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Very often criticized for his political positions, we know very little about his private life. Here are 10 things you surely ignore on Marine Le Pen.
She was not intended to take over the reins of the FN
Marine Le Pen was not at the top of the list to succeed her father, unlike Marie-Caroline, the eldest daughter, whom Jean-Marie Le Pen had raised for this purpose, in particular by paying her high studies in Oxford.
It was in 1998, at the time of the FN split, that Marine Le Pen jumps on the opportunity while Marie-Caroline and their father were tearing themselves off for different political opinions.
Her name is not Marine
On her birth certificate, Marine Le Pen actually bears three first names, among which Marine does not appear. Indeed, the three first names chosen by her parents were Marion, Anne and Perrine. But quickly, they regret their choice and nicknamed her Marine, because of her blue eyes. Finally, this username will remain.
She has a fetard past
Although she denies this past that is lent to her, preferring to cultivate her image as a model mother, Marine Le Pen has long scoured the Parisian nightclubs during her youth. These revelations, supported by many witnesses, earned him the nickname of "the night club" within the National Front for some time.
His father took him to the morgue
When she was 20 years old, her father, very focused on Breton culture, took her to the morgue to see Jean-Pierre Stirbois, killed in a car accident. Jean-Marie Le Pen did not want the first corpse that his daughter will see herself.
She defended immigrants
In 1992, Marine Le Pen became a lawyer and volunteered to ensure the permanence of immediate appearance at the 23 e Chamber of the Paris court. She is then led to defend many illegal immigrants.
Among them, the case of Nour-Eddine Hamidi, an undocumented migrants of Algerian origin, which she defended six times.
Hired at gold prices at the FN
Five years after taking oath, Marine Le Pen's activity as a lawyer is not flourishing. It was then that in 1998, she landed at the liner, the siege of the FN in Saint-Cloud, as legal director of the party of her father for a monthly salary of 30,000 francs (just under 6,000 euros) for part -time.
Fifteen years of war with his mother
In 1984, Pierrette Le Pen suddenly left the Domaine des Le Pen and left to hide in Toulouse with her lover. The divorce goes wrong and Pierrette engages in annoying confessions on the boss of the FN in the media. Flights, blackmail and bare photos will punctuate the life of the Pen in the following years. It took them 15 years to reconcile.
12 kg less for the 2017 campaign
Like François Hollande for the 2012 election, Marine Le Pen prepared for the 2017 presidential campaign following a diet.
After the end of year celebrations, Marine Le Pen advisers notified the press that the presidential candidate had lost 12 kg.
She almost stopped politics
In 2005, Marine Le Pen was angry after the publication of an interview with her paternal in the weekly Rivarol. Then aged 37, she puts herself on leave of the FN bodies and leaves to recharge her batteries in Brittany, thinking of giving her resignation.
His driving license was suspended
Marine Le Pen committed eight traffic violations, in particular speeding, and saw her license suspended in 2012.
In 2014, she tried to have this permit suspension canceled before the judge, but the Lille court rejected her request.
