Joëlle Bergeron

Joëlle Bergeron is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She became a card-carrying member of the National Front when it was created in 1972 and at the end of the 1970s she was responsible for the party's Brittany section. Her late husband Daniel Bergeron was a member of the Front National's Central Committee and a candidate for the party in national, regional and local elections and after he died, she took his place as Front National candidate for the 2011 cantonal elections in Lorient, obtaining 15.39% of the vote in North Lorient and later standing as candidate for the party in senatorial and National Assembly elections. She was elected as a member of the National Front at the European election in May 2014 but was asked to stand down after she called for European immigrants to be given the right to vote. She refused and instead resigned from the party two days after the election to sit as an independent MEP.