His daughter Marine Le Pen took over his political mantle but rapidly took steps towards making the far right an electable force, renaming it the National Rally (RN) and embarking on a policy known as ...

Marine Le Pen has expressed regret for expelling her late father from the far-right party he founded. She expelled him from the party four years after she succeeded him in 2011 after he repeated a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives Notre Dame du Val-de-Grace church for a public memorial for ...

Le Pen also said that the Third Reich Occupation of France – when thousands of Jews and other French citizens were entrained to the gas chambers – “was not particularly inhuman”. His daughter, Marine ...

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she will never forgive herself for expelling her father Jean-Marie Le Pen from the party he founded and she rebranded, after he died last week aged 96.

Mr Le Pen died aged 96 on Tuesday last week and was buried at a private funeral in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in southern Brittany. open image in gallery Mr Le Pen died aged 96 on Tuesday ...

FILE - 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 ...

Earning respect has been high on the National Rally’s agenda in recent years. Mr. Le Pen’s daughter, Marine Le Pen, took over leadership of the party in 2011, and kicked out Mr. Le Pen in 2015.

Marine Le Pen, France’s National Front political party ... question of immigration from the 80s onward, which inevitably set the agenda for the next forty years.” French extreme right-wing ...

Le Pen — who reached the second round of the 2002 presidential election that Jacques Chirac went on to win in a landslide victory — was eventually estranged from his daughter Marine Le Pen.