In April 2015 , Marion Maréchal-Le Pen was chosen by her party to be the leading FN candidate in the southeastern region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in that year 's regional elections , after her grandfather was expelled for his remarks on the Holocaust . She did not support his expulsion . The elections came a month after an Islamist terror attack which killed 130 people in Paris . Maréchal-Le Pen reacted on television by declaring that " Today , we can see that immigration has become favorable terrain for the development of Islamism "
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November 2015 Paris attacks
Marion Maréchal