2023-04-16 03:03:00
“Jean-Marie Le Pen has been hospitalized in a public facility in the Paris region. His family and friends are worried but calm,” said his aide, Lorrain de Saint Affrique, adding that he is “conscious” and accompanied.
Jean-Marie Le Pen founded, in 1972, the National Front, transformed into National Regroupment, presided over until November by his daughter, Marine. She came second in the 2022 presidential election (41.5%), in which President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected.
His daughter, Marine, tried to clean up the party’s image and expelled him from it in 2015 for his statements that the holocaust was just a detail in history.
Aged 94, he has been hospitalized several times in recent years. In February 2022, he was admitted after suffering a mild cardiovascular accident.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was a presidential candidate five times. In 2002, he reached the second round, being defeated by an overwhelming majority by Jacques Chirac.
This former paratrooper spent decades trying to generate immigration revulsion, and his political career declined after more than half a century in which his overt racism led to him being known as the “devil of the republic”.
Born on June 20, 1928 in La Trinit-sur-Mer, western France, and educated in law, Jean-Marie Le Pen served as a legionnaire in the colonial wars of what was then Indochina (1953) – today Vietnam – and Algeria (1957). ).
He became the youngest legislator in France, being elected National Assembly at just 27 years old.
In 1972, he took over the direction of a new party that brought together neo-fascists: the National Front.
In 1984, he was elected MEP, and in the 1986 legislative elections, he returned to the National Assembly.
In recent years, he has made fewer public appearances and has expressed no regrets for past controversial comments.
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