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Marion Le Pen, Marine's niece on course to win French seat
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| Contributor | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! |
| Last Edited | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! Jun 16, 2012 12:49am |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jun 16, 2012 12:00am |
| Description | The 22-year old law student is one of five far-Right candidates in with a chance of becoming an MP in Sunday's final round of legislative elections, in which the Socialists stand to win a majority. The National Front has failed to win and keep a seat in the National Assembly since 1986.
The third generation of France's far-Right dynasty, Miss Maréchal-Le Pen came top in the first round in the southeastern Vaucluse department, leading her xenophobic grandfather to say it proved she came from "good stock".
She said she chose the Provençal constituency whose main town is Carpentras to avenge her grandfather's "soiled" name.
In 1990, National Front supporters were accused of desecrating a Jewish cemetery in Carpentras, which Mr Le Pen always denied.
Her aunt Marine Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigration, anti-Europe party, won an even higher slice of the vote in the first round of legislative elections, taking 42 per cent in her constituency of Hénin Beaumont in the northern Pas de Calais. But her telegenic niece stands the higher chance of being elected on Sunday.
In Marine Le Pen's constituency, far-Left former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon has urged his supporters to unite behind Miss Le Pen's Socialist rival, who is thus likely to win.
But in Carpentras, third-placed Socialist candidate Catherine Arkilovitch is refusing to following party orders to bow out to allow second-placed Right-wing UMP candidate Jean-Michel Ferrand to block the FN candidate's rise.
Adamant that every effort must be made to stop an "an emblematic personality getting a foothold in the department", the Socialist Party has piled on the pressure to get Miss Arkilovitch to stand down, to no avail.
With the vote split three ways, a BVA poll forecasts Miss Maréchal-Le Pen will win with 36.5 per cent of the vote, ahead of her UMP and Socialist rivals, on 34.5 per cent and 29 per cent, making her France's youngest MP. |
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