Jean-Marie Le Pen, the controversial founder of France's National Front party, passed away at the age of 96. Known for his anti-immigration and anti-multicultural stances, Le Pen's legacy remains deeply divisive in French politics.
Jean-Marie Le Pen , the founder of France ’s far-right National Front party, has died aged 96. Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally – as the party is now known – confirmed his death on Tuesday. Le Pen, who had been in a care facility for several weeks, died “surrounded by his loved ones”, his family said in a statement shared with AFP. The politician founded the National Front party in 1972 and was known for his rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism.
His controversial statements, including Holocaust denial, led to multiple convictions and strained his political alliances, but he unexpectedly reached the presidential election-run off against Jacques Chirac in 2002. His daughter, Marine Le Pen, succeeded him as National Front party chief in 2011. She has since rebranded the party as National Rally, turning it into one of France’s main political forces. After kicking her father out of the party, Ms Le Pen aimed to distance herself from his extremist image. But despite his exclusion from the party in 2015, Le Pen’s divisive legacy endures, marking decades of French political history and shaping the trajectory of the far right. He had recently been exempted from prosecution on health grounds from a high-profile trial over his party’s suspected embezzlement of European Parliament funds that opened in September. Le Pen had 11 prior convictions, including for violence against a public official and antisemitic hate speech. French judicial authorities placed Le Pen under legal guardianship in February at the request of his family as his health declined, French media reported
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