Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the Front National party has issued an extraordinary attack on his daughter, claiming she lacks the right qualities to become president. Marine Le Pen’s father launched scathing attacks on his “ungrateful” daughter’s capabilities on the eve of the French election. French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s father Jean-Marie has suggested... 

France’s far-right party National Front (FN) has decided to expel Jean-Marie Le Pen, its founder and honorary president, over his sharp criticisms of his daughter’s measures as the current party leader. On Thursday, the FN’s executive committee removed the octogenarian politician from his position and annulled his membership in the party. The decision was made after the committee questioned... 

Marine Le Pen the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen recently became leader of the National Front succeeding her father. She is turning out to be a slick operator. With the French presidential elections less than a year away she is polling ahead of President Sarkozy. She doesn’t deny that there used to anti-Semitism in the party. Now she says she has only one thing to say to anyone with those views “... 

French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen leads a delegation of far-right European politicians to Japan this week where they plan to visit Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni shrine to war dead. When asked about the visit to the shrine, which honours 2.5 million Japanese war dead including 14 top war criminals from World War II, the party’s deputy leader Bruno Gollnisch said “bad... 

On the rise: National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen saw his party win almost 12 per cent of the vote in French regional elections Nicolas Sarkozy has received a drubbing in French regional elections which saw the re-emergence of the far-Right National Front. The president’s ruling UMP party polled 26 per cent in the first round of voting and the Socialists almost 30 per cent. But Jean Marie... 

Marine Le Pen is preparing to take over the far-right National Front from her father Jean-Marie. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the long-serving leader and founder of France’s Front National party, once said that he would never retire. Nevertheless, it’s expected that the 81 year old will step down from frontline politics after the upcoming regional elections. His daughter Marine is his heir-apparent,... 

For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed, the topic was considered so toxic that no one in France besides extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen would even take it up in public. But times have changed. Twenty years after Le Pen’s National Front Party (FN) became a political... 

France’s extreme-right National Front is poised to win its first town council in a decade after gaining ground in the north’s former mining heartlands of Pas de Calais, far from the party’s traditional southern base. The far-right party, led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, has reached record popularity in Hénin-Beaumont, a depressed former coalmining town struggling with high unemployment,... 

The French political establishment scrambled yesterday to try to block a significant electoral breakthrough by the daughter of the veteran far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Marine Le Pen, 40, and her running-mate topped the poll on Sunday night’s municipal by-election in Hénin-Beaumont, an impoverished former coal mining town near Lens in the Pas de Calais. Having won nearly 40 per cent of... 

Translated from FN website: I warmly thanks the voters and activists to whom I owe my re-election in the European Parliament, after a very active campaign which was not well publicized by the mainstream media. We travelled nearly 15,000 km on the ground. You can count on my attendance and my tenacity inside the EU Parliament, when I was and will remain so the most active MEP in the European Parliament. It... 

The French National Front sent 3 MEPs to Brussels, its one more than 2004, France had 2 before. The names are: Jean Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen and Bruno Gollnisch. In UK: 2 MEPs from the BNP, and 12 confirmed MEPs from UKIP or more. Despite the typical bashing of the corrupted media outlets, the BNP was socially made to look “radical”, despite the fact that they are pro-English only, being... 

Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, has asked the French government to freeze its financial contribution to the European Union, she estimates that money should be given to French citizens severely impacted by the economic crisis. She will head the National Front for the European elections for the North-West region, she adds that every year France contributes 19 billions Euros and it only...