2023-04-16 11:28:49
Jean-Marie Le Pen (94 years old), founder of the ultra-right National Front (FN) and former European deputy, has been admitted since Saturday to a hospital in the Paris region for a heart problem whose scope has not been specified, according to reports this Sunday. French media. Other newspapers such as Le Point speak of the fact that Marine Le Pen’s father suffered a “mild heart attack”.
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The local press indicates that the state of the ‘patriarch’ arouses concern, although, in any case, Le Pen remains aware. “His family and his loved ones are worried but calm. He is aware and accompanied ”, pointed out his adviser Lorrain de Saint Affrique. The last time the far-right was hospitalized was in February 2022, when he suffered a mild cerebrovascular accident.
The ‘shock’ of 2002
Le Pen (1928, La Trinité-sur-Mer, Morbihan) is considered the patriarch of the extreme right in France; a saga continued by his daughter, Marine Le Pen, who changed the name of the National Front party to National Rally and currently chairs it.
Le Pen Sr. has been a candidate for the French Presidency five times, and in 2002 managed to advance to the second round of the elections – the first time that a far-right party had done so – after beating the socialist Lionel Jospin, which created a huge impact in France and the rest of Europe. However, he handily lost the race to the conservative Jacques Chirac, who even received the vote of many socialists so that Le Pen could not win.
Racist, denialist and anti-Semitic comments
MEP between 1984 and 2019 and French MP in two stages (1956-62 and 1986-1988), Jean-Marie Le Pen has made, during his long career, several racist, denialist and anti-Semitic statements, which led to several judicial convictions, although they also gave him notoriety.
He presided over the National Front between 1972 and 2011, when he took over from his daughter Marine, who changed the name of the party a few years later and somehow tried to “whiten” it with the name Agrupación Nacional (RN), currently the main party opponent.
Since Marine took the reins of the far-right party in 2011 (with which he was a finalist in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections), relations with his father have been strained, to the point that she stripped him of the title of honorary president in 2015. for some antisemitic statements. They have recently made amends.
Although he never held government office, Jean-Marie Le Pen managed to get the racist and xenophobic idea that immigration is something to be fought to sink in among a large part of the French electorate.
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