A polarising figure in French politics, Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the rabble-rousing far-right leader who died on Tuesday aged 96, was a political outcast on April 21, 2002 ...
Centrist politicians once based their whole pitch on the claim to possess “electability,” but now they can’t offer a ...
France has been on the back foot in its former colonial territories after military coups in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the National Front, helped make extremist views and anti-immigrant rhetoric mainstream in ...
African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some leaders showed ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen's death was confirmed by his daughter Marine Le Pen's political party, National Rally (Rassemblement ...
By founding the National Front in 1972 — which has since been rebranded and is led by his daughter Marine Le Pen — Jean-Marie ...
French President Emmanuel Macron and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during commemorations marking 10 years since an Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo, Tuesday Jan. 7, 2025.