Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the far-right National Front party who tapped into working-class concerns over immigration and globalization and built a career on rhetoric that many saw as racist and xenophobic, has died aged 96. His death was confirmed by his daughter Marine Le Pen’s political party, National Rally. Jean-Marie Le Pen spent his life fighting, whether as a soldier in France’s colonial wars, as a founder of the National Front (for which he contested five presidential elections) or in feuds with his daughters and ex-wife, which were often conducted publicly. … Commenting on Le Pen’s death, President Emmanuel Macron said: ‘A historic figure of the far right, he played a role in the public life of our country for nearly 70 years, which is now a matter for history to judge.'” (01/07/25)