Marion Maréchal

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Marion Maréchal (2018)

Marion Maréchal (born December 10, 1989 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ), who appeared under the surname Maréchal-Le Pen until May 2018 , is a French politician of the right-wing extremist Rassemblement National (previously Front National). The granddaughter of party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of Marine Le Pen was elected in 2012 at the age of 22 as the youngest member of the National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic for the Vaucluse department . In May 2017, she announced her retirement from politics.

Career

Maréchal-Le Pen in 2013

Marion Maréchal is the daughter of Yann Le Pen, granddaughter of Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and the niece of Marine Le Pen , the party leader of the Rassemblement National. According to her mother, the diplomat, journalist and spy Roger Auque, who died in 2014, was the biological father. The former campaign manager of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Samuel Maréchal, who was married to Yann Le Pen from 1993 to 2007, recognized Marion as his daughter. At the age of two, she was featured on an election poster for the Front National on her grandfather's arm. She grew up in a gated community in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud . She went to a public school up to the third grade, then for “security reasons” she switched to a private, Catholic-traditionalist girls' school. A classmate was Madeleine de Jessey , later a politician of the conservative Républicains and leader of the protests against same-sex marriage . She completed a master's degree in public law at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), which she graduated in 2012.

At the age of 18 she joined the Front National. For the first time for a public office, she applied unsuccessfully in the regional elections in 2010 in second place on the FN list in the Yvelines department . On June 10, 2012, she came in the first round of the French parliamentary elections in Carpentras ( Départements Vaucluse ) known as the FN stronghold with 34.6%. In the second ballot, she was elected with 42.09% of the vote in front of the socialist Catherine Arkilovitch and the previous Conservative MP Jean-Michel Ferrand ( UMP ), who held this office for a total of six legislative terms . In this legislative period until 2017, she was one of two members of her party (alongside Gilbert Collard ).

After Marine Le Pen's defeat in the presidential elections in May 2017, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen declared her retirement from politics. Observers saw u. a. the intention not to get drawn into an open power struggle with her aunt. After her retirement from politics, she founded the private university Institut des sciences sociales économiques et politiques (Issep; Institute for Social Sciences, Economics and Politics) in Lyon in May 2018 . Since then she has been the director of the institute, at which sixty students were enrolled in 2019. In May 2018 she gave up the suffix Le Pen in her surname.

Political positions

Maréchal-Le Pen has publicly opposed being labeled as right-wing extremist. In contrast to many supporters of the Rassemblement National , she has spoken out against the death penalty , but in favor of a "really life" prison sentence. She is not an opponent of the legal abortion for medical or social indications, but refuses the cost of the intervention by the health insurances if it is repeated. She has also spoken out against the equal rights of registered homosexual partnerships with marriage and has taken part in public demonstrations against it. At an event organized by the royalist right-wing extremist Action française , she admitted that she belonged to a generation that was “a little dazed” by the values ​​of the republic (“saoulée par les valeurs de la République”) , which “we are constantly served and by whom you do not know what they are demanding ”. For her, the republic has no priority over France, she defends the Fifth Republic, but this is only a political system. Your country is France, which existed centuries before the French Revolution. Charles Maurras , the historical leader of Action française, described her - even if she disagreed with him on everything - as a “first-rate political thinker”.

Maréchal-Le Pen was considered very popular among supporters of her party, especially in the south of France, she regularly attracted large crowds at election rallies. In the eyes of her followers, she was also seen as a possible successor to her aunt Marine Le Pen; their positions were often interpreted as contradicting the anti-European statements of Marine Le Pen and her then deputy Florian Philippot .

Private

Maréchal married the entrepreneur Matthieu Decosse on July 29, 2014. She gave birth to a daughter in September 2014. She separated from Decosse in 2016.

Web links

Commons : Marion Maréchal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marion Le Pen plus jeune députée de la Ve République , Le Figaro
  2. ↑ Article about Roger Auque in the francophone Wikipedia
  3. ^ L'identité du véritable père de Marion Maréchal-Le Pen dévoilée Le Parisien, 7 November 2013
  4. ^ Tugdual Denis: Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, l'effrontée nationale. In: L'Express , March 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ Michaela Wiegel: Marion Maréchals Mission - A woman goes her right way. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine , June 1, 2018.
  6. ↑ Virginie Le Guay: Marine et Marion Le Pen: le choc des ambitions. In: Paris Match , October 18, 2012.
  7. ↑ Marion, le nouveau visage du clan Le Pen , Le Figaro
  8. ^ French Ministry of the Interior
  9. ^ Marion Maréchal-Le Pen en tête dans le Vaucluse , Le Nouvel Observateur
  10. ↑ Législatives 2012: entendu au marché avec Marion Marechal-Le Pen, candidate dans le Vaucluse , Huffington Post
  11. ↑ Le Point: ' Marion Maréchal-Le Pen: un départ qui va laisser des traces ', May 12, 2017, accessed on May 16, 2017 (French)
  12. ↑ Le Figaro: ' Le départ de Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, adieu ou au revoir? ', May 10, 2017, accessed on May 16, 2017 (French)
  13. ↑ Christel Haas, Cornelia Laqua: Marion Maréchal: The right management forge of the Le Pen niece. In: ZDF Today. February 22, 2019, accessed June 6, 2019 .
  14. ^ Marion Maréchal-Le Pen sur RTL: "Je ne suis pas d'extrême droite". RTL.fr, November 8, 2012, accessed on March 20, 2013 (French).
  15. ^ "Peine de mort: Marion Maréchal-Le Pen dit non". 20 minutes , October 11, 2012, accessed March 20, 2013 (French).
  16. ^ Marion M. Le Pen sur les IVG: "l'État n'a pas à rembourser l'inattention de certaines femmes". ladepeche.fr, October 11, 2012, accessed on March 20, 2013 (French).
  17. ^ "Marion Maréchal Le Pen agite l'argument de la polygamie". (No longer available online.) Europe1: Le Lab, November 29, 2012, archived from the original on January 7, 2013 ; Retrieved March 20, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lelab.europe1.fr
  18. ↑ Maréchal-Le Pen juge sa génération "saoulée par les valeurs de la République". www.lefigaro.fr, April 27, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Maréchal, Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, member of the National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Yvelines department