2023-04-16 00:00:18
Founder of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, 94, was hospitalized on Saturday afternoon after feeling unwell at his home in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), learned Le Parisien, confirming Point information. The state of health of Jean-Marie Le Pen was considered “serious”, without anyone knowing more. It is a “serious alert”, underlines with the Parisian his entourage, which evokes a “heart discomfort”.
Jean-Marie Le Pen had already been hospitalized for a few days in February 2022 after a transient ischemic attack, a mild form of stroke. The previous year, he had been infected with Covid-19, without complications. He had since been perked up, until recently. Two days ago, he published on his YouTube channel his traditional “Logbook” in which he discusses French news. During his transfer to the hospital, this Saturday afternoon, “he was singing in the ambulance”, testifies one of his relatives.
At the origin of the creation of the FN
Nicknamed “The Menhir”, Jean-Marie Le Pen is at the origin of the creation of the National Front. With a speech mainly against immigration, he was a candidate for the presidential election five times, even reaching the second round in 2002. In 1986, he managed to be elected to the National Assembly with the colors of his party. – thanks to a proportional vote, allowing the election of a total of 35 National Front deputies. He was even a member of the European Parliament between 1984 and 2019.
In 2011, Jean-Marie Le Pen left the hand of the party to his daughter, Marine Le Pen. But in 2015, after having questioned his daughter’s political strategy for the party (particularly regretting the “de-demonization” advocated by the management), then reaffirming as he had done in 1987 that the gas chambers are a ” detail of the story”, he had been expelled from the party which continued on its way without him (renaming itself the Rassemblement national).
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