Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928) is a French politician. He was born in La Trinitié-sur-Mer, Brittany, France.[1] He was the leader of the French National Front (FN) from 1972 until 2011, which is a far-right political party in France. He stands for immigration restrictions, the death penalty, raising incentives for homemakers, and is against the EU. He is strongly against same-sex marriage, euthanasia and abortion.
Le Pen served in the French Army from 1953 to 1957.
Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the FN in 1972 and has been its leader ever since. He became a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 1984 and has run for President of France five times; in 1974, 1988, 1995, 2002 and 2007. He came second in the 2002 election. Le Pen has often been considered to have xenophobic and antisemitic views and was accused of having practised torture when he fought in the Algerian War (1954-1962).[source?] He was suspended from the FN on 4 May 2015.
The youngest of his three daughters is FN leader Marine Le Pen. His granddaughter is FN MP Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, November 2005
"Jany" Paschos, his second wife, with Le Pen at his National Front party's annual march to the statue of Joan of Arc, Place des Pyramides, Paris, May Day 2007
References
- ↑ "Jean-Marie Le Pen Biography". Biography.com. Archived from the original on 24 November 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2013.