In July, Mr Macron’s approval rating dropped to 38 percent from 39 percent in June, and according to European affairs journalist Paul Taylor, his hopes for reelection in 2022 are incredibly slim. Her aunt Marine Le Pen has been FN president since 16 January 2011, with Jean-Marie Le Pen first becoming honorary chairman and later excluded in August 2015. Her grandfather, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founded the Front National party on 5 October 1972. Mr Taylor conceded that "whatever path he chooses will be the result of difficult economic choices", before adding that if the world’s sixth-largest economy is truly going to get back on a sound footing, it will need a completely new model. Mr Macron said the additional “COVID debt” would be corralled in a separate account and paid down over the very long term, but while financing debt is not a problem for France, it will give Mr Macron little scope for manoeuvre. The coronavirus crisis is proving to be a challenging test for many leaders around the globe. November 5 — After the U.S. election: Building bridges or walls? Marine Le Pen news, speeches and odds here. Au Revoir Macron!
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In his piece for Politico, Mr Taylor also noted that crisis spending is set to raise France’s public debt — already at 100 percent of GDP before the pandemic — to more than 120 percent. Marine Le Pen is the right-wing populist presidential candidate who came second in the French election 2017. Jean-Marie Le Pen with his wife Jany and daughters Marine and Yann in 2002. The Bank of France expects a nine percent recession. Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen, dite Marine Le Pen [maʁin ləpɛn]b, née le 5 août 1968 à Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), est une femme politique française.
Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. Le Pen, 51, was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2017 and became leader of the far-right National Rally in 2011 when it was still known as the Front National . See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, Il sert dans l'armée lors des guerres d'Indochine et d'Algérie et commence un parcours politique dans les courants poujadistes. "The European Commission is forecasting a 10.6 percent slump in French output this year, only slightly less steep than in Italy and Spain. The leader of the National Rally said she cannot let Macron ‘run alone.’. Jean-Marie Le Pen, (born June 20, 1928, La Trinité, France), French nationalist who founded and served as leader (1972–2011) of the National Front political party, which represented the main right-wing opposition to the country’s mainstream conservative parties from the 1970s through the early 21st century. Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICO’s editors and guest writers on French politics.
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Family background. Marine Le Pen is the daughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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