National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen has been hospitalized
Former president of the far-right National Front (now Rally National) Jean-Marie Le Pen was hospitalized on Saturday with a “mild heart attack”.
The former leader of the National Front (now the National Rally) Jean-Marie Le Pen was hospitalized on Saturday with a “slight heart attack”, we learned from his entourage, confirming the information of the daily “Le Point”.
“Jean-Marie Le Pen has been hospitalized in a public institution in the Paris region. Her family and loved ones are worried but calm,” said her adviser Lorraine de Saint Afrique, a historical figure of the French far-right. ” and surrounded.
The 94-year-old former political leader has been hospitalized several times in recent years. In February 2022, Marine Le Pen’s father was hospitalized following a mild stroke.
Omnipresent on the French political landscape
Jean-Marie Le Pen was a candidate for the Élysée five times, and managed to reach the second round in 2002, defeated by Jacques Chirac with the highest score. (1957) was a legionnaire.
Elected to the National Assembly for the first time in 1956 on the Boujadist list, he became the youngest member of the Palais Bourbon at the age of 27. Defeated in the 1962 assembly elections, he has long crossed the desert. He was appointed leader of a new party in 1972 that united the neo-fascists: the National Front. And develops his favorite theme: “1 million unemployed plus 1 million immigrants”, accusing the French of exploiting social assistance to their detriment.
In 1984, he became a member of the European Parliament, and later in the 1986 legislative elections, won a seat in the National Assembly. He was removed from the post of regional councilor of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in April 2000, after a disqualifying one-year sentence for violence against a Socialist candidate in the 1997 legislative elections, one of his many legal conflicts.
At the end of 1998, the departure of Bruno McCrét caused a split in the FN, but despite losing part of his electorate, Jean-Marie Le Pen succeeded in imposing the FN as the main far-right movement.
Series slips
“Menhir” admits no remorse for his slips, restrained or not, often repeated, it has received several legal convictions: gas chambers “a detail of history”, “race inequality” (1996), “especially inhumane” through the German occupation (2005).
In the Strasbourg parliament, where he has been elected several times, he says he is trying to “defend France against Europe against the abuses of the EU”.
The youngest of his three daughters, Marine, inherited the party in 2011. He has long said he “accepts the whole lineage”, but he has finally been outdone by this father who has become uncomfortable with “demonstration” of the party. Marine Le Pen ousted her father in 2015 after repeated controversial comments about the Holocaust.
After the RN’s historic advance in last June’s legislative elections, with 89 seats, he lamented the “lack of a certain media” of the RN delegation led by his daughter, calling on them to “react” by being “aggressive towards power”.
AFP
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