The leading right-wing politician led the party from 1972 to 2011 when it was called the National Front.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France바카라™s far-right National Rally party, has died aged 96, media reports said. Reports said that he had been in a care facility for several weeks and died at midday Tuesday surrounded by his loved ones. The leading right-wing politician led the party from 1972 to 2011 when it was called the National Front.
After years of political battles, Le Pen sent shockwaves through France and in 2002 by reaching the two-candidate second round of a French presidential election where he was later crushed 82 per cent to 18 per cent by Jacques Chirac.
Le Pen repeatedly courted controversy and legal action with his views on the Holocaust, which he described as a mere detail in the history of the second world war. Several media reports highlighted that Le Pen was notable for his family quarrels. His first wife posed nude for Playboy magazine to embarrass him when his political career was taking off. The youngest of his three daughters, Marine, took over his party, Front National, in 2011, but later kicked him out while trying to make the party seem respectable.
His granddaughter, Marion Maréchal, daughter of Marine바카라™s older sister Yann, took the Le Pen political soap opera into a new generation endorsing Zemmour over her aunt during the first round of the presidential election in 2022 바카라” only to publicly abandon Zemmour two years later.