Le Pen
Proper noun
Meaning
Le Pen
A surname from French.
Examples
A 2002 IPSOS poll showed that while 22% of the electorate have a good or very good opinion of Le Pen, and 13% an unfavorable opinion, 61% have a very unfavorable opinion.
But while President Emmanuel Macron is a clear loser from the election — which saw his centrist La République En Marche party take a beating at the hands of the Greens in several major cities — Le Pen doesn’t come out looking much better.
But on 8 July 2015, another French court ruled to suspend the vote and urged the party to organize a Congress in presence of its members as Jean Marie Le Pen sued the National Front again.
All parties outside the National Front (except for Lutte ouvrière ) called for opposing Le Pen, even if it meant voting for Chirac.
However, the U.S. president had a supporter in Marine Le Pen, leader of the Far Right movement, who applauded Trump’s performance during a morning show on news channel CNews.
Comes after Jean-Marie Le Pen with 10.44%, none of the other candidates exceeding the 5% mark.