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Yesterday — 8 January 2025Main stream

France Far-Right Party Embraces Jean-Marie Le Pen as a Visionary

For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after his death Tuesday, it hailed him as a visionary.

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Jean-Marie Le Pen speaking at a National Front congress in 2014. His daughter ousted him the following year, and the party was renamed the National Rally in 2018.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Rabble-Rousing Leader of French Far Right, Dies at 96

7 January 2025 at 20:31
He ran unsuccessfully for the French presidency five times, riding waves of discontent and xenophobia as the leader of the National Front party.

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Jean-Marie Le Pen, foreground, at a rally in Paris in 1984.
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