Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen is a French lawyer and politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022. A member of the National Rally, she served as its president from 2011 to 2021. She has been the member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais since 2017. She currently serves as parliamentary party leader of the National Rally in the Assembly, a position she has held since June 2022. Le Pen has been widely described as being far-right on the political spectrum.
Le Pen in 2022
Marine Le Pen in the traditional Jeanne d'Arc march, 3 May 2007
Supporters of Marine Le Pen in 2011
Marine Le Pen during her presidential campaign, on 15 April 2012
2012 French presidential election
Presidential elections were held in France on 22 April 2012, with a second round run-off held on 6 May to elect the President of France. The incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was running for a second five-year term for which he was eligible for under the Constitution of France.
Image: François Hollande (Journées de Nantes 2012)
Image: Nicolas Sarkozy in 2010
The candidates of the Ecology primary sitting together
Socialist Party: President of the General Council of Corrèze, former First Secretary of the Socialist Party and MP François Hollande
