He ran unsuccessfully for the French presidency five times, riding waves of discontent and xenophobia as the leader of the National Front party. By Robert D. McFadden Jean-Marie Le Pen ...
JEAN-Marie Le Pen, the nationalist founder of the French far-right National Front party, has died aged 96. Le Pen, who had been in a care facility for several weeks, died at midday Tuesday ...
Among others attending the ceremony was Jordan Bardella, the leader of the party Le Pen co-founded, now called the National Rally, according to several sources. Around 200 people were expected at ...
Le Pen, who co-founded what is now the National Rally (RN) party, was a “historic figure of the far-Right”, the Elysee said in a dry statement, adding that Mr Macron sent his condolences to ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main ... He was first elected as an MP in 1956 and co-founded the Front National in 1972. He remained an MP until 1988 and became an MEP in 2004 ...
In 1956, Le Pen was elected to the National Assembly as a Paris MP on the ticket of the anti-tax populist Pierre Poujade. Re-elected in 1958, then defeated in 1962, he founded a record company ...