SHOTLIST
1. varios de Marine Le Pen (Jun 3, 2024 in Paris/ Jul 14, 2022 in Paris/ Apr 25, 2024 in Mayotte / Apr 26, 2024 in Mayotte/ Jan 25, 2024 in Paris / May 2, 2024 in Perpignan/ Apr 17, 2024 in La Réunion)

STORYLINE
For most of her life, Marine Le Pen has lived in the shadow of her father. Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the far-right National Front in 1972, a party she would go on to lead some 40 years later. Changing her racist and anti-Semitic image has taken time, determination and a bitter family feud.
Le Pen, 55, is currently a member of the French National Assembly representing Calais, the town on the coast near the UK that has struggled to deal with migrants heading for Britain.
When Le Pen took over the reins from her father as party leader in 2011, she tried to change the National Front's name to something more conventional, going so far as to expel her father in 2013 from the political party he founded after he repeated his claim that the Nazis' gas chambers had been nothing more than a detail of history.
Finally, in 2018 she managed to rename the force founded by her father as Rassemblement national (Rassemblement national in French, or RN), the name under which she is currently competing and under which she won the European Parliament elections.
Marine Le Pen is the mother of three children. She has been divorced twice. She has regularly called for respect for her children's privacy, trying to protect them from media attention.
In her presidential campaign against Emmanuel Macron in 2017, when she lost in a run-off against the current president, she tried to position herself as a French Donald Trump, claiming to represent the forgotten French working classes who have suffered in the wake of globalisation and technological progress.
But her economic nationalist stance (she wants to leave the euro and return to the franc, and push for an exit from the European Union), her views on immigration (she proposes reducing immigrants' income and access to public services), Euroscepticism and her positions on Islam in France (she wants to make it illegal for women to wear the veil in public) proved unpopular with the French electorate.
Le Pen advocates isolationism and nationalism, and sees the two great evils afflicting France as liberal political correctness and "Anglo-Saxon multiculturalism".
She has long been a vocal admirer of Vladimir Putin, the Russian strongman who has become a pariah in the West because of the Kremlin's decision to attack its neighbour, Ukraine. Le Pen visited the Russian strongman during her first presidential campaign in 2017, but this time she was forced to scrap a leaflet with a photo of her and Putin from that trip after the invasion.
Her previous aversion to NATO (Le Pen's 2017 campaign platform included pulling France out of the alliance) could also be a liability.
Le Pen lost again in the second round of the 2022 presidential election - her third attempt at the Elysée Palace - once again to Macron, but by a much smaller margin than in 2017, so she emerged stronger.