Sophie Pedder
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103 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founded the National Front, as it was known then in the 1970s.
He stood in elections from 1974 up till 2002, only one he didn't stand in.
So you've got over half a century of a member of the Le Pen family standing in French presidential elections.
The
There's no other family that has represented anything of the sort.
She inherited a party that was xenophobic, anti-Semitic, and she has really brought it closer to respectability.
It's now considered by lots of voters in France as a party like any other.
She has been on a quest to sort of earn this mainstream quality.
And that is why she, I think, wants to prove that now she can do it.
Well, it definitely marks the start of the presidential campaign.
It is providing some clarity for her opponents as well.
They know now who they will be up against.
And that matters because up till now, for the last 15 months, it hasn't been clear.
It also enables her to really shape the policy direction that the party is going in.
She has some fairly left-leaning views, which is quite unusual for a hard-right populist politician, on things like lowering the pension age or protecting people on low incomes.
She has her base in the northeast of France.
She's a deputy for the mining basin there.
And she very much bases her support on the working class electorate.
And that is where she'll be concentrating most of her appeal.
Well, what a story for him.
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