Marie-Christine Arnautu
Marie-Christine Arnautu (French pronunciation: [aʁnoty] * October 19, 1952 in Paris ) is a French politician of the Rassemblement National . She was Deputy Chairwoman of the Front National from 2011 to 2018 and a member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019 .
Life and political career
Arnautu is the daughter of immigrants : Her father Alexandre Arnautu came from an Aromanian family from Pirdop in Bulgaria , her mother Georgette Ingaramo had Italian ancestors. Both were naturalized by decree in 1957 . She is divorced and has three children.
Arnautu is studying law at the Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II). In 1973 she met Jean-Marie Le Pen , the founder of the right-wing extremist party Front national (FN), with whose family she cultivated a close friendship in the period that followed. Le Pen was also her daughter's godfather. After graduating, Arnautu worked as a secretary at the Société d'études et de relations publiques (Serp), a record publisher for military music, founded by Le Pen . She later worked as a commercial clerk at Air France .
From 1986 to 1988 Arnautu was a member of the parliament of FN member Jean-Pierre Stirbois , and in 1987 she joined the party herself. From 1989 to 1995 she was a member of the municipal council of the town of Vitrolles in the south of France . In the 1995 presidential campaign, she appeared in a promotional video for Jean-Marie Le Pen. For the 1997 parliamentary elections , Arnautu took part in the 6th constituency of the department. With 21.6% she came in third place, but qualified for the second ballot and thus contributed to the defeat of Jean-François Copé from the conservative RPR . From 1998 to 2010 she was regional councilor ( conseillère régional ) of Île-de-France .
From 2003 Arnautu belonged to the Politburo of the National Front. At the beginning of 2011, Le Pen's daughter Marine , who she had known since childhood, replaced her father as party leader. At the same time, Arnautu was elected deputy chairman of the FN with responsibility for social affairs. She was seen in the party as a representative of the "old guard". In the 2014 local elections in Nice , she was the top candidate for the National Front, which received 21.1% of the vote in the city. She was elected chairman of the FN parliamentary group in the local council.
In the European elections in 2014 she was elected to the European Parliament , where she was initially non-attached, and from 2015 she was a member of the right-wing extremist group Europe of Nations and Freedom . She was a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and a delegate to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee and the Euro-Latin America Parliamentary Assembly. After renaming the FN to Rassemblement national, it left the party leadership in March 2018. She did not run for the 2019 European elections .
Web links
- Entry on Marie-Christine Arnautu in the database of Members of the European Parliament
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c FN: v'là la vieille garde! In: Le nouvel observateur , June 7, 2013.
- ^ Entry on Marie-Christine Arnautu in the European Parliament 's database of representatives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnautu, Marie-Christine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician (Front National), MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |