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.
France's Jean-Marie Le Pen suspended from own far-right party
France's far-right National Front (FN) on May 3 suspended founder Jean-Marie Le Pen over a string of controversial remarks and amid a deepening feud with his daughter Marine, who now leads the party.
French National Front leader Le Pen says her father should no longer speak for the party
France's far-right National Front chief Marine Le Pen said May 3 her father should "no longer be able to speak in the name of" the party, as a bitter public feud between the two deepens.
Le Pen fires against EU over negotiations with Greece
Marine Le Pen launched an attack against the EU based on their negotiation tactics with Greece.
The French far-right leader noted that the strained relations over the debt of the country revealed the true nature of the EU which stamped out the wishes of the Greek people.
France's Jean-Marie Le Pen steps back to ease family feud
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France?s far-right National Front (FN), said April 13 he would not seek its ticket to stand in regional polls, taking some of the sting out of a damaging public row with his daughter Marine, the party?s current leader.
Marine says papa Jean-Marie Le Pen has committed ‘political suicide’
Tempers continue to simmer in France’s far-right Front National, with president Marine Le Pen threatening to sack the party founder and honorary president, her dad Jean-Marie.
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.
Massive Win for Sarkozy's Conservative Party in France Local Elections
Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for Popular Movement (UMP) party proved to be the big winner at the second round of France's local elections.
Paris and Lyon, France's two biggest cities have been excluded from the vote on Sunday.
French right deals major blow to ruling Socialists in local elections
France's ruling Socialists took a drubbing in run-off local polls on March 29 that saw major gains for former president Nicolas Sarkozy and the far-right ahead of 2017 presidential elections.
France's far-right breakthrough expected in local elections
The conservative party of former President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to dominate the final round of France?s local elections, give the far-right National Front another electoral breakthrough and deal a new blow to the governing Socialists.