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  Marine Le Pen: A Fatal Attraction?
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ContributorLa Fayette 
Last EditedLa Fayette  Jan 26, 2012 02:21am
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AuthorArnaud Bevilacqua
MediaWebsite - Huffington Post
News DateFriday, January 20, 2012 05:25:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionMarine Le Pen, president of the National Front (FN) the French far-right party, is getting nearly 20 percent of votes in recent polls. These incredible scores were never achieved even by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, who got as far as the second round in the 2002 presidential election. Three months into French presidential elections, his daughter is a serious threat to Nicolas Sarkozy the outgoing president. But how could a woman, who came into politics in the wake of her father, who has extreme right wing views and no ministerial experience, become so popular?

 Since she succeeded Jean-Marie Le Pen in January 2011, the iconic figure of the French far-right for more than 50 years, Marine Le Pen has become a key personality in French political life. To her political opponents, she is turning out to be an even more formidable candidate than her father, often equated with "evil incarnate.
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