Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the Front National, gave the far right a visibility and longevity it had never known in contemporary France. His daughter Marine Le Pen took over in 2011 and renamed the party the National Rally.
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The former leader of the National Front has died, aged 96.
Under France’s second-ballot system, French voters can vote with their hearts in the first round, knowing they’ll be able to vote in the second round with their heads — in other words, strategically.
While Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National has engaged in a decade-long campaign to rehabilitate its image with youth voters, the GOP is moving in the opposite direction.
A victory of the far-right presidential candidate would be good news for Moscow, which has a long-standing history with Le Pen and her party.
When France won the world cup in 1998, the team was celebrated for its multiculturalism. What has happened since?
When Jean-Marie Le Pen made it to the second round in 2002, France was in a very different mood.
Marine Le Pen of the far right National Front and independent Emmanuel Macron advance to the runoff on May 7.
France’s Front National party has tried to distance itself from anti-Semitism – with limited success.
Many politicians in the West – from backers of Brexit to Donald Trump – have convinced voters that immigrants are hurting their economies. The evidence suggests otherwise.
Sweeping changes to employment law are of far greater concern than allegations that the Front National has been avoiding tax.
The founder of France’s far-right movement and his daughter, the current president, have had a spectacular and very public falling out.
Jean-Marie and Marine need to split up in a way that benefits them both.
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