She has been the member of the National Assembly for the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais since Le Pen has served as parliamentary party leader of the National Rally in the Assembly since June Le Pen joined the FN in She won the leadership of the FN in , with She finished second in the first round of the election with On 7 May , she conceded after receiving approximately She came second in the first round of the election with She expelled her father from the party in August , after he made fresh controversial statements.
Le Pen supports limiting immigration and banning ritual slaughter. Time named Le Pen one of the most influential people in the world in and Her godfather was Henri Botey, a relative of her father.
Le Pen has two sisters: Yann and Marie-Caroline. In , when Marine was eight, a bomb meant for her father exploded in the stairwell outside the family's apartment as they slept. Her mother left the family in when Marine was Le Pen wrote in her autobiography that the effect was "the most awful, cruel, crushing of pains of the heart: my mother did not love me.
She was a member of the Paris Bar until , when she joined the legal department of the National Front. She has three children with Chauffroy Jehanne, Louis, and Mathilde. The couple divorced in Le Pen has described herself as a non-practising Catholic. Marine Le Pen joined the FN in , at the age of She acquired her first political mandate in when she was elected a Regional Councillor for Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
In the same year, she joined the FN's juridical branch, which she led until In , she became president of Generations Le Pen , a loose association close to the party which aimed at " de-demonizing the Front National". She became one of the two executive vice-presidents of the FN in , with responsibility for training, communication and publicity. In the parliamentary election , she contested Pas-de-Calais' 14th constituency but came second behind incumbent Socialist MP Albert Facon. Early in , Le Pen expressed her intention to run for leader of the FN, saying that she hoped to make the party "a big popular party that addresses itself not only to the electorate on the right but to all the French people".
