Non Attached Meps Serving 1984-1989 - French FN Meps Serving 1984-1989, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Jean-Pierre Stirbois, Dominique Chaboche (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jean-Marie Le Pen (French pronunciation: born 20 June 1928) is a French conservative and nationalist politician who is founder and president of the Front National (National Front) party. Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, including in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than the main left candidate, Lionel Jospin. Le Pen lost in the second round to Jacques Chirac. Le Pen again ran in the 2007 French presidential election and finished fourth. His 2007 campaign, at the age of 78 years and 9 months, makes him the oldest candidate for presidential office in France. Le Pen focuses on immigration to France, the European Union, traditional culture, law and order and France's high rate of unemployment. He advocates immigration restrictions, the death penalty, raising incentives for homemakers, and euroscepticism. He strongly opposes same-sex marriage, euthanasia, and abortion. Jean-Marie Le Pen, September 2005Le Pen was born in La Trinit-sur-Mer, a small seaside village in Brittany, the son of a fisherman but then orphaned as an adolescent (pupille de la nation, brought up by the state), when his father's boat was blown up by a mine in 1942. He was raised as a Roman Catholic and studied at the Jesuit high school Franois Xavier in Vannes, then at the lyce of Lorient. Aged 16, he was turned down (because of his age) by Colonel Henri de La Vaissire (then representative of the Communist Youth) when he attempted, in November 1944, to join the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). He then entered the faculty of law in Paris, and started to sell the monarchist Action franaise's newspaper, "Aspects de la France," in the street. He was repeatedly convicted of assault (coups et blessures).... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=49955