French Far-Right Leader Jean-Marie Le Pen Has Died Aged 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right political party the National Front, has died aged 96, a senior party official has announced.Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, confirmed the death of Le Pen in a post on the social media platform X on Tuesday.
Reactions to former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen's death
Marie Le Pen, an unabashed nationalist and founder of the French far-right National Rally party, has died aged 96. Following are reactions to his death. JORDAN BARDELLA, CHAIRMAN OF THE FAR-RIGHT NATIONAL RALLY "Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen pays tribute to her politically polarizing father
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has paid tribute to her late father Jean-Marie, the founder of the National Front party, calling him a “warrior” in politics
Protesters respond to calls from far-left groups to celebrate death of Jean-Marie Le Pen in Paris
Demonstrators were seen setting off fireworks and chanting slogans in Republic Square on Tuesday. Earlier that day, Le Pen, the founder of the National Front party, died at the age of 96.
In Death, Jean-Marie Le Pen of France Is Embraced by Far-Right Party He Once Led
For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after his death Tuesday, it hailed him as a visionary.
Jean-Marie Le Pen and the rise of the far right in France: A look at key dates
- French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, center, flanked by his daughter Marine Le Pen, and Bruno Gollnisch, arrives for a wreath-laying ceremony at the statue of Joan of Arc, within the party’s traditional May Day march Saturday May 1,
Jean-Marie Le Pen revived extremist politics in France
I N HIS 19th-century mansion on a bluff overlooking Paris, Jean-Marie Le Pen kept in his cluttered office a collection of nautical memorabilia, including a huge pair of brass, stand-mounted binoculars.
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Jordan Bardella could soon be French PM at 28. But for many he remains an enigma
The French would dearly love to know who is the real Jordan Bardella. The question was interesting when Mr Bardella was merely president of the country’s biggest party, the far-right National ...
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Jordan Bardella: the Pied Piper of the French far-right
Hours after Emmanuel Macron and his centrist Renaissance party suffered a "calamitous result" in the European elections, the French president surprised even political insiders by calling a snap ...
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Jordan Bardella
Jordan Bardella was a political neophyte when he led the ticket in last May’s European Union elections for Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party. Yet he—and his fierce anti ...
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French PM in final appeal to stop far-right victory
Jordan Bardella, whose campaign posters have “prime ... high proportion of the vote One mother said that living as a black family in a nearby village, it was worrying that the RN vote was ...
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EU Parliament refuses to pay Jordan Bardella's chief of staff as a parliamentary assistant
The party's president, Jordan Bardella, who is also a member of the European Parliament, attempted to have his chief of staff recruited as a local parliamentary assistant. In November, the ...