In 1953 , a year before the beginning of the Algerian War , he contacted President Vincent Auriol , who approved Le Pen 's proposed volunteer disaster relief project after a flood in the Netherlands . Within two days , there were 40 volunteers from his university , a group that would later help victims of an earthquake in Italy . In Paris in 1956 , he was elected to the National Assembly as a member of Pierre Poujade 's UDCA populist party . Le Pen has often presented himself as the youngest member of the Assembly , but a young communist , André Chène , 27 years old and half a year younger , was elected in the same year
flood in the Netherlands
North Sea flood of 1953
Jean-Marie Le Pen