Ms. Le Pen, 56, became the face of France’s far right after taking over the party in 2011 from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. Ms. Le Pen has sought to detoxify the political movement he built by ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader often accused of racism and antisemitism, dies at 96 A polarizing figure in French politics, Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism ...

A member of the French Parliament, Le Pen and others were accused of misusing 4.4 million euros, or $4.8 million, in European Parliament funds to pay staff who were working for he ...

Le Pen in 2011 took over leadership of the National Front (FN) from her father Jean-Marie, who co-founded France's main postwar far-right movement. Distancing it from the legacy of her father ...

Since the party’s creation in 1972, the National Rally has always been led by either Le Pen or her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died earlier this year. Recent polling had indicated that Le Pen ...

For Le Pen, the worst-case scenario materialized. The 56-year-old daughter of the late far-right totemic figure Jean-Marie Le Pen was sentenced to two years under house arrest while wearing an ...

Ms. Le Pen has endeavored to rebrand the party, founded in 1972 by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, steering it away from its antisemitic and racist roots. Its platform, however, has remained ...

She lived through a bomb attack as a child, a very public falling-out with her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, and a public humiliation during her 2017 presidential debate against a young Emmanuel Macron.

The suddenness of these reactions, issued on the eve of the ruling, marked the end of four months of nervousness in a party affected by the death, on January 7, of its founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

While she did not personally profit from the scheme, judges noted that it allowed a small group of senior party figures, including Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, to benefit from “a ...

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