Marie-Caroline Le Pen (born 23 January 1960) is a French politician and member of the

Le Pen family The Le Pen family is a prominent political family of France. Le Pen is a Breton surname meaning "the head", "the chief" or "the peninsula".Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (, born 20 June 1928) is a French far-right politician who served as President of the National Front from 1972 to 2011. He also served as Honorary President of the National Front from 2011 to 2015. Le Pen graduated fro ...

and his first wife Pierrette Lalanne, she became involved in the National Front (FN) in her youth. She was regional councilor for Île-de-France from

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

. When the FN split in 1998, she followed

Bruno Mégret Bruno Mégret (; born 4 April 1949) is a French former nationalist politician. He was the leader of the Mouvement National Républicain political party, but retired in 2008 from all political action. Youth and studies Born in Paris, Bruno Mégre ...

to the

National Republican Movement The National Republican Movement (''Mouvement national républicain'' or MNR) is a French nationalist political party, created by Bruno Mégret with former Club de l'Horloge members Yvan Blot (also a member of GRECE) and Jean-Yves Le Gallou, as a ...

(MNR) with her husband,

Philippe Olivier Philippe Olivier (; born 30 August 1961) is a French politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. Olivier stood at the 2017 French parliamentary election in Pas-de-Calais's 7th constituency. He was defeated by Re ...

. After a break up with her family, she became closer to her sister

Marine Le Pen Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen (; born 5 August 1968) is a French lawyer and politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022. A member of the National Rally (RN; previously the National Front, FN), she served as its pre ...

in the end of the 2000s, finally returning to the FN in 2016. She was re-elected to the Île-de-France regional council in

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

. In the 2024 legislative elections, Marie-Caroline Le Pen ran in the fourth constituency of Sarthe, the former constituency

François Fillon François Charles Armand Fillon (; born 4 March 1954) is a retired French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of the Republicans (previously known as the Union ...

, who was

Prime Minister of France The prime minister of France (french: link=no, Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers. The prime minister ...

between 2007 and 2012. She lost to

Élise Leboucher Élise Leboucher (born 9 October 1982) is a French politician from La France Insoumise. She became the Member of Parliament for Sarthe's 4th constituency in the 2022 French legislative election. In the 2022 French legislative election, she unseat ...

by 225 votes.

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