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Jul 8, 2024 · Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928, La Trinité, France) is a French nationalist who founded and served as leader (1972–2011) of the National Front political party, which represented the main right-wing opposition to the country’s mainstream conservative parties from the 1970s through the early 21st century.
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Jul 2, 2024 · Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, ran a fringe political party, which too often relied on antisemitism and racism to provoke and draw attention, according to Stanford University professor Cecile Alduy. “Since (Marine) has been at the helm of the party, she has tried to smooth out the rhetoric, embrace a kind of democratic rhetoric ...
Jul 8, 2024 · Jean-Marie Le Pen, the fiery ex-paratrooper, a co-founder of what was then called the National Front, which initially included Nazi-era collaborators, had repeated convictions for antisemitic hate speech, having repeatedly described the Holocaust’s gas chambers as “a detail” of WWII history.
3 days ago · When Jean-Marie Le Pen first stood as presidential candidate in 1974, he was summarily eliminated in the first round of voting with 0.7 per cent of the votes, though in 2002 he shocked France by ...
Jul 6, 2024 · Jean-Marie Le Pen’s antisemitism was well established by French courts: the 96-year old was convicted multiple times under France’s restrictive anti-hate speech laws for making...
Jul 3, 2024 · Marine Le Pen’s elderly father Jean-Marie has been deemed unfit to stand trial alongside her in a scandal over the alleged diversion of millions of euros in European Union funds to build up a...
Jul 1, 2024 · Its leader Marine Le Pen has tried to make the brand less toxic and more electable since taking over in 2011 from her father Jean-Marie, who was notorious for his racist and antisemitic...
