Frexit with Marine Le Pen?

Le Pen during a rally

Marine Le Pen is the current presidential candidate in France, who many compare to Americas very own Donald Trump. She is the youngest daughter of former leader and founder of Frances National Front Party (FN) and convicted racist Jean-Marie Le Pen. Le Pen was Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France in 1968 and grew up around controversy due to her fathers political career, mainly his comments on the holocaust. When she was just 8 years old she survived a bomb attack on her family home, carried out by enemies of her outspoken father. She graduated with a masters degree in criminal law from University of Paris in 1992 and began working as a public defender.

Le Pen showed an early interest in politics as she accompanied her father to rallies at a young age and at the age of 18 joined the National Front. She was first elected to a regional post in 1998, marking the first step on her political career. As she became leader of the National Front in 2011, she sought out to purge the party of its most overtly anti-semantic and racist overtones. This ultimately led to her and her fathers fall out in 2015 as she expelled him from the party.

Some of Marine Le Pens policies are:

• Lowering taxes and increasing welfare payments for the working class
• Cutting migration by 80 per cent to 10,000 people a year
• Making it more difficult to become a French citizen
• Ending access to free basic healthcare for illegal migrants
• Reinstating border checks and expelling foreigners on the watch lists of intelligence services
• A possible Frexit, having praised Britain's Brexit

Le Pen has taken a strong stance on immigration in France, as she looks to make a massive reduction in legal immigration. As for illegal immigrants, they "have no reason to stay in France, these people broke the law the minute they set foot on French soil". Before the attacks on Paris in 2015, Marine linked islamic terrorism to immigration. This is one of the main reasons people are in favour of her for this upcoming election. She has also promised a frexit under her leadership showing her views as anti-EU. If some how France was able to leave the European Union, it would be the end of the European experiment as we know it.

With the election ongoing it will be interesting to see the outcome and the aftermath if Le Pen does become the President of France!


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2165140/marine-le-pen-french-french-presidential-election/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38321401
http://news.sky.com/story/marine-le-pen-who-is-national-front-candidate-in-france-election-10759211

Vladimir stop, your Putin everybody in a awkward situation!

Vladimir Putin, One of the worlds leading superpowers of today has a very interesting story of his rise to power. He was born in Leningrad (now St.Petersberg), on October 7, 1952. After Putin graduated from Leningrad State University with a law degree in 1975, he joined the KGB as a intelligence officer. The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. He was stationed mainly in East Germany, where he stayed for 15 years before retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. 

In 1991 the Soviet Union dissolved into 15 new independent countries, including the new Russian Federation. In Putins eyes Russia had just lost 200 square miles of territory, he later called this the "Major geographical disaster of the century". Putin then developed an interest in politics and in 1991 he became deputy major of St.Petersberg. By 1999, President at the time, Boris Yeltsin who was widely unpopular due to his cooperation with the west, appointed Putin as Prime Minister of Russia. A few months later Yeltsin resigns and appoints Putin as Interim President. Putin was then elected to his first term in 2000, with 53 percent of the votes. 

Vladimir did not take likely to those who opposed him, Russian billionaire Mikail Khordokovsky got involved in opposition politics and was later sentenced to 14 years in prison for embezzling oil, but ultimately this was a vendetta settled by Putin. Some believe that Putin was responsible for a number of assassinations carried out against several prominent opposition voices. 

After his first two terms had ended, A new President was elected. Putin retained his position as Prime Minister of Russia but many believed he was still the prominent power in the heart of the Russian Government. After 4 years, Putin was re-elected President in a landslide victory with 63.6 percent of the votes.

Putin has put together one of the most effective cyber armies in the world and he using it to terrorise the west. These hackers have stolen classified U.S information, hacked politicians email accounts, shut down Georgia internet while Russian troops invaded and finally they tried to sabotage Hillary Clintons presidential campaign.

Love him or hate him, it’s hard to deny that Putin has made a huge impact on his country and the world.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/06/vladimir-putin-15-ways-he-changed-russia-world
http://www.biography.com/people/vladimir-putin-9448807
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxMWSmKieuc