Marine Le Pen: France’s Trump is on the rise

A political push from the French far-right.

Marine Le Pen is the leader of France's far-right political party, Front National or the "National Front". She took over the party in 2011 from her father and founder of the party, Jean-Marie Le Pen. Since then, she has kicked her father out of the party as part of a process known as "dédiabolisation". By removing her father, Marine Le Pen hoped to cut ties with the anti-Semitic reputation that he had cultivated for the party. Despite this effort, her recent comments on the Vel' d'Hiv roundup have hindered her attempts to distance the party from it's xenophobic and anti-Semitic past. As the French election approaches, many are wondering whether the nationalist fervor that has swept across Europe will continue gaining momentum in France. Like British leaders promising a Brexit, Le Pen would like to secure a referendum for a Frexit from The European Union, which she believes is a globalist organization that favors German interests over those of France. In addition to the threat of globalization, she fears the erosion of a distinctly French identity. Accordingly, she would like to pursue anti-Immigration policies as president that would severely cut back on the rising number of asylum requests granted to newly arrived refugees from Syria, North Africa, and elsewhere in The Middle East. Like American president Donald Trump, she cites concerns about safety in order to defend her anti-immigration platform. In addition to restricting immigration, she has promised to protect France from Islamist fundamentalism, which she believes is a religious entity that serves to promote terrorism. Critics claim that her policies are Islamophobic, but she defends her platform by maintaining that her most pressing interest is protecting France for the French. In doing so, she often references the distinctly French concept of secularism known as laïcité. Recent terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015 and attacks in Nice in 2016 have stoked xenophobic and racist sentiments in France. Marine Le Pen is hoping that those fears translate into votes in the 2017 French presidential election.

[thescorch]

If france builds a wall on the german border germany will just go through Belgium again

[imaturtle]

She is gonna build the Maginot line and Germany is gonna pay for it!

[tonyordonez]

The pen: 2 Dollars

Le Pen: 5000 dollars

[justsomegirlwithagodcomple]

At this point doesn't every country have a " Trump"

[cybercery]

The last time french build a wall, someone walked around it

[toby]

Marine, Donald, Borris are they all the same person in a different blonde wig.

[DarthVader-yqiz]

Le Pen: does politics since way before Trump enters politics
USA: Look it's France's Trump!
Le Pen: sad baguette noises

[itsroku]

“Frances Trump” Ironically looks like Hillary Clinton

[finnbazz]

With Trump to the left of me, Brexit to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with EU.
~Ireland

[yungheehong]

Doesn’t matter how many history classes we take, we get the same stuff different eras....

[thomaspetty]

I have a pen
I have a Marine
Huh
Marine le pen

[haltarys]

As a French, I am amused to see how she's only getting attention now from the rest of the world when we've had to deal with her for years now.

[danilyevh.]

Brexit, Frexit, Italeave. Politicians really are good in puns. I'll give that to them

[Theiwillsurviveguy]

Honestly i can't stand how americans call all european far right politicians the 'dutch trump' or the 'french trump' while these politicians have been around far longer then trump. Trump is the american le pen or the american wilders since he's alot newer to politics.

[nlain]

"principles of secularization resulting from a Christian heritage"
...I'm sorry, what?

[princessedesaturne]

Love how everybody in the comments think she is not "far right" enough instead of trying to understand that politics and people's vision of right and left in politics is really different in every country and depends on the country's culture, history, political system and relationship with politics.
Maybe her ideas are not considerated far right where you live, but in France her ideas are far right so she's a far right candidate, no need to discuss it

[jamesburgessk]

You guys really don't learn from your mistakes. The more you talk about how bad a candidate, the more exposure you're giving them. You barely mention the other candidates who are better qualified.

[ItsMelon]

History repeats itself faster than expected

[henriquejambu]

0:39 this dude looks exactly like a super villain I can’t 😂

[d_bennji]

Imagine a Country (USA) which dosen't even have nearly the same amount of Muslims as France or Germany, but still talking about Islamophobia