Jean-Marie Le Pen

French court annuls Jean-Marie Le Pen's suspension from far-right FN

A French court cancelled Jean-Marie Le Pen's suspension from the far-right National Front party on July 2 in a ruling that could re-launch a public feud with his daughter, now party leader Marine Le Pen. 

By pushing her maverick father out of the party he founded four decades ago, Marine Le Pen was seeking to prevent him ruining her bid for power. 

French Front National tarnished by Kremlin leak and Holocaust-minimizing

Hacked Kremlin tax messages emerged implying that Marine Le Pen's far-right party had been given a 9-million-euro loan by a Russian bank last year as "reward" for supporting President Vladimir Putin's annexation of the Crimea. This leak and a Holocaust-minimizing outburst by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has left the French Front National leader's credibility tarnished.

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