the leader of france's far right has been named one of time magazine's 100 most influential people alongside president barack obama, pope francis and kanye west national front leader marine le pen, 46, who took over from her father in 2011, says it shows that her party's brand of political change is getting attention on both sides of the atlantic in an interview before a dinner in honour of the time 100 ion new york on tuesday, the leader of the staunchly anti immigration front spoke of representing a 'great political force' anti immigrant honoured: the leader of right wing national front, marine le pen, 46, said being one of the time 100, shows that her party's brand of political change is getting attention on both sides of the atlantic  'people are taking note of the political upheavals that are happening, a great political force that i represent tonight   and that tomorrow can perhaps change the face of decisions that are made not just in france, but perhaps in europe,' le pen said the recognition comes at an eventful time for le pen, who recently announced she would oppose her father, jean marie le pen, on his candidacy in france's regional elections in december earlier this month, le pen snr, who founded national front in 1972, infuriated his daughter  with a series of racist and anti semitic remarks the 86 year old  had repeated his claim that the holocaust was ‘a detail of history’ and had also praised france’s wartime leader marshal petain, who collaborated with hitler this angered marine, who said she would not back him in the elections and accused him of ‘political suicide’ far right views: before the time 100 gala in new york, the leader of the staunchly anti immigration front spoke of representing a 'great political force' in europe  family feud: marine, who took over leadership of the party from her father jean marie, 86, in 2011 recently accused him of 'political suicide' after he repeated his claim that the holocaust was ‘a detail of history’ after this, jean marie le pen told french publication le figaro that he was withdrawing his candidacy  in the south east provence alpes cote d’azur region ‘even though i think i am the best candidate’ the former paratrooper said it was because the party was at risk of being ‘dangerously weakened’ over what he called a severe but unjustified crisis over his comments mr le pen, who remains the front’s honorary president, said the best replacement candidate would be his grand daughter marion marechal le pen, 25, who confirmed shortly after that she would seek the party’s nomination marine le pen declined tuesday to discuss what she thought would be an appropriate punishment but said the party 'can no longer be the hostage of views that are personal views and that certainly contradict the political action of the national front' influential: rapper kanye west and his wife, reality tv star kim kardashian west are both on the list  proud: mia farrow and her son ronan farrow both attended the time 100 gala, in new york last night  celebrated: actors bradley cooper and emma watson are deep in conversation at the bash  since taking over from her father in 2011, le pen has pushed to rid the party of its extreme right wing past and recast it as a voter friendly option for people frustrated with france's direction and traditional parties as many as 90 national front members hold some of france's more than 4,100 local council seats, and marine le pen is a prospective 2017 presidential candidate both france's governing socialists and conservative party, known as the ump, have sounded alarm calls about what france's future would be under the national front, which opposes immigration, the european union and what it perceives as the 'islamization' of france influential: laverne cox, kim kardashian west and naomi campbell attend time 100 gala 
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national front leader named as one of time's 100 most influential  marine le pen said it shows her 'brand of politics' is getting attention  le pen, 46, has tried to rid party of its extreme right wing past 