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Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (20 June 1928 – 7 January 2025), commonly known as Jean-Marie Le Pen (French: [ʒɑ̃maʁi lə pɛn]), was a French far-right politician. He focused on issues related to immigration to France, the European Union, traditional culture and values, law and order, and France's high rate of unemployment.
Le Pen (French: [lə pɛn]) is a prominent political family of France.Le Pen is a Breton surname meaning "the head", "the chief" or "the peninsula". [1] The family has led the National Rally party (formerly the National Front) since its inception in 1972, first under Jean-Marie Le Pen (1972–2011) and subsequently under his daughter Marine Le Pen (2011–2022).
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and leader of the National Front (FN) party in France, was initially suspended from the party in May 2015 after claiming that the Holocaust was "a detail of history". After Le Pen successfully challenged the suspension in court, an extraordinary party congress was held in August 2015, and he was expelled from the ...
Paris — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the historic leader of France's far-right political movement, died Tuesday at the age of 96, the French news agency AFP said, citing his family. Le Pen, who had been ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right National Front party and an unrepentant extremist on race, immigration and multiculturalism, has died aged 96.. Le Pen had been in a ...
Le Pen was first elected as a lawmaker in the French National Assembly in 1956 under the banner of a populist party. 1972. Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the National Front in a move to increase support for his anti-immigration, nationalist approach and to be able to run as a presidential candidate in the 1974 election, when he got 0.74% of the vote ...
Le Pen is a Breton surname (meaning 'the head', 'the chief' or 'the peninsula'). Notable people with the name include: Le Pen family, the political family of France under patriarch Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928–2025), French politician, founder of the National Front party
PARIS(Reuters) -Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration and globalisation and revelled in minimising the ...