MADRID Jan. 7 () –
The French politician Jean Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front and architect of the great political leap of the extreme right in France, died this Tuesday at the age of 96.
The veteran politician, who achieved a historic passage to the second round of the presidential elections in 2002, ended four decades of presidency of the National Front in 2011 to hand over the baton of command to his daughter, Marine Le Pen, who renamed the party –now called the National Group– with a view to reaching new heights of power.
Le Pen theoretically retired from political life in 2015, when he was expelled from the party he founded for his anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial views. He went so far as to say that the gas chambers of Nazi Germany were “a detail in the history of the Second World War.”
The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, has mourned the death of Jean Marie Le Pen, a man who “has always served France, defended its identity and its sovereignty.” Through social networks, he has expressed his condolences to the family, in particular to his partner Marine Le Pen.
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