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Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France’s far-right Nationwide Entrance get together and a controversial determine in French politics, has died on the age of 96.
Le Pen reached the second spherical of the 2002 French presidential election in a second that shocked France and led voters to vote closely for his opponent Jacques Chirac to dam the far proper from energy.
His daughter, Marine Le Pen, succeeded him as get together chief in 2011 and has twice reached the second spherical of presidential elections. She has sought to melt the get together’s picture, renaming it the Rassemblement Nationwide and excluding her father from the get together.
In a press release to AFP, Le Pen’s household stated that he had died on Tuesday at noon.
Jordan Bardella, president of RN, confirmed Le Pen’s demise in a press release on X.
Paying tribute to the far-right chief, he stated that Le Pen had “at all times served France, defended its identification and its sovereignty”, as each a political chief and soldier within the French military in Vietnam and Algeria.
“At present I feel with disappointment of his household, his family members, and naturally of Marine whose mourning should be revered,” he stated.
