Marion Marechal-Le Pen, French National Front political party member and current deputy in Parliament, holds a glass with people as she visits a trade fair in Bollene, France, November 11, 2015. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
CARPENTRAS, France (Reuters) - A huge 1990s election poster of Marion Marechal-Le Pen as a blonde toddler with her grandfather, founder of France's far-right National Front party, greets visitors at her campaign headquarters.
Now a 25-year-old rising political star and France's youngest lawmaker, she wants to win a December local election in southern France, to put the anti-immigration, anti-Europe party started by the maverick Jean-Marie Le Pen on a firmer footing for the 2017 presidential vote.
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