Le Pen is a French politician who is founder and former president of the Front National (National Front) party. He is 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.
He is relevant to the film 'La Haine', as from just the little information I have researched about this french politician, you can see that he concentrates more on the under privileged and the more poor areas of france. With the film, it focuses on the poverty of france and three people who live in these conditions and what there life includes in a normal day, also the conditions of these estates with the riots that occured in france in the late 90's. He seems to be able to relate to these people, and it seems that the underclass french public are very popular with Le Pen. It seems that he fights for what they beleive in and wants to make a difference to the more poor areas rather than the more richer areas that already have everything they need in life (wealth and power), this is exactly what is included in the film 'La Haine', the three youths realise how little they have and how much the inner city have and wonder why the government and France, itself, do nothing about this. Why should they live in Poverty? Why should they have nothing? Le Pen is the person who helps the youngsters of France answer these questions.
