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French far-right leader and presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen gestures as he delivers a speech after the announcement of the preliminary official results of the election's first round, April 22, 2007 in Paris
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN, founder of France’s far-right National Front, has died at 96, Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, as the party is now known, confirmed on the X social media platform today.
Mr Le Pen, a Holocaust-denying anti-semite, Islamophobe and racist, reached the second round of the 2002 presidential election.
He had recently been exempted from prosecution on health grounds over his party’s suspected embezzlement of European Parliament funds.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
