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April 9th, 2015 | #21 |
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Marine Le Pen, Leader of France’s National Front Party, Splits With Her Father, Its Founder
By SUZANNE DALEYAPRIL 8, 2015 PARIS — Marine Le Pen, the head of France’s far-right National Front, has openly split with her father and the founder of her party, calling his recent comments, including those on German gas chambers, “political suicide” and an attempt to harm her. In recent years, Ms. Le Pen, trying to clean up the image of her party as racist and anti-Semitic, has kept her distance from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, 86, and his more extreme statements, even as he continued as the party’s honorary chairman. But Mr. Le Pen made headlines over the last week, after he once again claimed that the Nazi gas chambers were a “detail” of history; praised France’s collaborationist wartime leader, Marshal Philippe Pétain; and questioned whether France’s Spanish-born prime minister, Manuel Valls, was really loyal to France. His outbursts appeared to be more than Ms. Le Pen and her entourage could put up with. In a statement on Wednesday, Ms. Le Pen said she had already told her father that she planned to block him from running in coming regional elections. “Jean-Marie Le Pen seems to have descended into a strategy somewhere between scorched earth and political suicide,” she said. “His status as honorary president does not give him the right to hijack the National Front with vulgar provocations seemingly designed to damage me but which unfortunately hit the whole movement.” She added that, with great sadness, she was calling a meeting of the party’s executive bureau with her father present “to find the best way of protecting the interests of the movement,” a statement that some experts took to mean that Mr. Le Pen may be expelled from the party altogether. Ms. Le Pen’s deputy and the party’s chief spokesman, Florian Philippot, soon said in a Twitter message, “The split with Jean-Marie Le Pen is now irrevocable and definitive.” Until now, disagreements between Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen, who has both depended on and extended her father’s legacy, were largely kept in check in the interest of party unity. But as Ms. Le Pen looks to broaden her party’s appeal, the rupture on Wednesday made it clear that she would now prize her own political future over, possibly, preserving relations with her father. The bitter nature of their power struggle — greeted gleefully by their opponents — seemed to portend a long-awaited reckoning for the National Front. Alongside other far-right parties in Europe, it is currently angling to seize a moment of opportunity made possible by popular anger over rising immigration, failing economies and stifling European Union bureaucracy. But what to do with the elder Mr. Le Pen has been a problem within the National Front for years, experts say. Mr. Le Pen founded the party 43 years ago and spent most of his energy running for president. His continued presence and history of controversial remarks have made it difficult for his daughter to rebrand the party and may have cost her the collaboration she sought with other more moderate far-right parties in the European Union. When she hoped to work as a single caucus with the Dutch and British far-right parties, the leader of Britain’s U.K. Independence Party, Nigel Farage, shunned her, accusing her party of prejudice and anti-Semitism. Mr. Le Pen, however, made clear that he would not be pushed aside without a fight. In his own statement, he said that when called before the executive board, he intended to express his views as a politician who is “responsible and ‘free’ and who always walks with his head up.” In the meantime, he said, “each should take advantage of the delay to measure their responsibility to France, to the French and to the movement that embodies their hopes.” The Le Pen family is famous for its living arrangements in the wealthy suburb of Saint-Cloud, west of Paris. Marine Le Pen lived on the family property, which includes gardens and several houses, until September. Her sister and mother, who is divorced from Mr. Le Pen, still live there. Mr. Le Pen now just keeps an office there. When Ms. Le Pen, 46, finally moved out, apparently because her apartment in the former stables was too dark and small, the gossip magazine Closer wrote, “No more animated discussions with Daddy in the garden.” Ms. Le Pen harbors her own presidential ambitions. But she has struggled to move out of her father’s shadow and distinguish her own reputation even as she tries to build a more mainstream party from the bottom up and field candidates in local elections. Distancing herself from her father, some experts say, is unlikely to do her any harm. In fact, it may help put some of the party’s recent mistakes behind her. In departmental elections last month — a layer of government between county and regional — the National Front fielded some 7,000 candidates, many of whom had not been vetted. In the waning days of the campaign, dozens were caught making racist statements on their Facebook pages or in public appearances, including one man who called on Muslims to do the world a favor and kill themselves. Thomas Guénolé, a political analyst, said that the news media attention to these wayward candidates had cost the National Front votes. He said the party had been polling at 30 to 33 percent, but it ended up with just 25 percent in the first round. “I think the numbers show that there is a ceiling on the votes the party can win with that kind of talk,” he said. Under Ms. Le Pen, who took over the party in 2011, the National Front has moved away from constant anti-immigrant talk to developing policies on a range of subjects from banking to education. It supports renegotiating France’s treaty with the European Union to restore French borders and the franc. It advocates more teaching of French in schools and greater protectionism for the economy. Ms. Le Pen’s version of the National Front has been enjoying success, tapping into French unhappiness with its two traditional parties after years of a moribund economy. Various polls have found that she would lead in a presidential election, though she would be unlikely to win in the second round. Last year, the party came in first with 25 percent of the vote in European elections and won hundreds of seats and a dozen mayoralties in local elections. It is not the first time Mr. Le Pen and his daughter have been at odds. Last June, for instance, Mr. Le Pen condemned artists who took positions against his party, saying he would make an “oven load” of one Jewish singer next time. His daughter condemned the remark, saying her party disapproved of any anti-Semitism. But last week Mr. Le Pen — 28 years after he first remarked that Nazi gas chambers were a “detail” in history — was on television saying he stood by those words because “they were the truth.” Again, his daughter quickly expressed her dismay. Four days later, Mr. Le Pen gave a wide-ranging interview in the far-right weekly magazine Rivarol, this time saying that the treatment of Marshal Pétain after the fall of the Vichy government had been too harsh and noting that Mr. Valls, 52, had been French for only 30 years. “What is his real loyalty to France?” Mr. Le Pen said. “Has this immigrant been converted?” The remarks have dominated the news cycles here since. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/wo...nder.html?_r=1 |
May 5th, 2015 | #22 |
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France's Le Pen disowns daughter after party suspension
PARIS (Reuters) - National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen disowned his daughter and party leader Marine on Tuesday after she suspended him from the far-right French movement, saying he hoped she would lose the 2017 presidential election. The party's executive committee, chaired by Marine Le Pen, suspended his membership on Monday and said it would strip him of his title of honorary chairman after he repeated his view that Nazi gas chambers were a mere "detail" of World War Two. Marine Le Pen, who succeeded her father as party chief in 2011, has sought to rid the party of its anti-Semitic image and position it as an anti-immigrant Eurosceptic force to woo voters before the 2017 presidential elections. The war of words between them escalated after his suspension, with the former paratrooper saying it would be "scandalous" if she were to become head of state. "I'm ashamed that the president of the National Front has my name," he said in an interview with Europe 1 radio on Tuesday. Late on Monday, he had already suggested his daughter get married so as to change her family name. Opinion polls indicate she could make it to the second round of the 2017 election but not win. There has been no clear poll evidence so far of an overall impact on her popularity with voters, or of the party as a whole. Sciences Po university's Pascal Perrineau said he did not expect the suspension and possible expulsion of Le Pen senior would lead to a break-up of the National Front, as in 1998 when his longtime ally Bruno Megret broke off to form his own party. His granddaughter, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, has also been drawn into the fight. She told Le Figaro newspaper she had requested more time from the National Front to decide whether to represent them in the southern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur - her grandfather's stronghold - in December regional elections as she did not want to be at the heart of the family conflict. "A more neutral candidate could perhaps be preferable in the interest of the movement ... I have no wish to be taken hostage by Jean-Marie Le Pen, in particular," she said. Several senior National Front party members said Jean-Marie Le Pen's reaction merely justified Tuesday's decision. "Internal democracy functioned perfectly within the National Front and the decision is perfectly clear," party treasurer Wallerand de Saint-Just said on BFM TV. https://news.yahoo.com/frances-le-pe...091637290.html |
May 5th, 2015 | #23 |
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Front National was nice a few years ago, and I guess they still have a solid foreign policy but today seem more like a French version of, I don't know, Fidesz maybe? They'll probably be something like Dansk Folkeparti in a few years.
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May 6th, 2015 | #24 |
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Damn, it's getting bloody. MLP gives way too much importance to MSM. They control her.
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May 9th, 2015 | #25 |
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Jean-Marie Le Pen tells his daughter Marine to marry because he is 'ashamed' she shares his name as family feud tearing apart France's National Front becomes all-out war
- Jean-Marie Le Pen has been suspended from France's National Front - Action was taken after he said Nazi gas chambers were a 'detail of history' - Mr Le Pen is also in feud with the party leader - his own daughter Marine - He said it would be 'scandalous' if she were to win the French presidential election in 2017 and ordered her to 'give up' the Le Pen family name By JOHN HALL FOR MAILONLINE and PETER ALLEN IN PARIS FOR THE DAILY MAIL UPDATED 6 May 2015 Jean-Marie Le Pen has told his daughter Marine to marry because he is 'ashamed' the leader of France's National front bears his surname. The family feud became an all-our war after Le Pen junior suspended her father's membership of the party over his comments dismissing Nazi gas chambers as trivial. The 86-year-old, who led the political party for four decades, reacted to the humiliating suspension by saying it would be 'scandalous' if his daughter were to be elected president of France and ordered her to 'give up' the Le Pen name. 'I'm ashamed that the president of the Front National bears my name,' he told Europe 1 radio yesterday. Anger: Jean-Marie Le Pen (right) publicly disowned his daughter Marine (left) and ordered her to 'give up' her family name after he was suspended from the National Front over his comments about Nazi gas chambers 'I hope she gets rid of it as fast as possible.' He reportedly suggested she rid herself of the Le Pen name by marrying her partner, Louis Aliot, who is also a senior party figure, as he did not want his family name associated with the head of the party. The younger Le Pen has been actively trying to distance the party from its racist and anti-Semitic image as she plans her bid for the next French presidential election in 2017. But her firebrand father's refusal to tone down his controversial remarks, such as the need to defend the 'white world', has led to a highly damaging public dispute between the two. Furious at his suspension, and the threat of losing his title of honorary party president, the older Le Pen turned harshly on his daughter, accusing her of 'betrayal' and saying he no longer wanted to see her win 2017 elections. He said his suspension was a 'criminal act,' vowed to 'disown' his daughter and ordered her to 'give up her name.' 'If such moral principles should govern the French state, that would be scandalous,' he said in a radio interview. Asked if he wanted his daughter to win the 2017 election, Le Pen said: 'For the moment, no.' He said his daughter was 'a bit worse' than the mainstream parties in parliament 'because an adversary fights you head on, here he is stabbing you in the back.' The relationship between Marine and her father has been particularly rocky in recent months. Marine Le Pen calls for her father to step down from politics Firebrand: In words which revived accusations that the FN remains anti-Semitic, Jean-Marie Le Pen (pictured) said last month that he had 'never regretted' saying the Holocaust gas chambers were relatively insignificant Six months ago, Marine Le Pen stormed out of her father's house after his Doberman dog savaged her Bengal cat to death. Then last month, after he repeated his view that the gas chambers were merely a 'detail of the history of the Second World War', Marine decided enough was enough and openly split with her father, saying he was committing 'political suicide'. Recently he also claimed that France has to get along with Russia to save the 'white world'. The dispute was bared for all to see during the party's traditional May 1 rally in Paris when Le Pen - conspicuously dropped from a line-up of National Front leaders on stage - strode uninvited onto the podium, grabbing the limelight as his daughter readied to make her speech. 'I think that was a malicious act, I think it was an act of contempt towards me,' Marine said on Sunday. 'I get the feeling that he can't stand that the National Front continues to exist when he no longer heads it,' she added. Jean-Marie Le Pen storms the stage during daughter's speech Established: Jean-Marie Le Pen (centre) has been the international face of the far-right party for decades. The 86-year-old remains popular with grassroots FN members and remains an MEP Under Marine Le Pen, the FN has enjoyed a series of election successes, notably coming first in last year's European elections. Polls suggest she could make it into the second-round run-off of a presidential election but is unlikely to win. Mr Le Pen, meanwhile, remains popular with grassroots FN members and remains an MEP. Yesterday Mr Le Pen refused to appear before a FN disciplinary board in a meeting called by Ms Le Pen, who is the current head of the party her father founded in 1972. An FN source in Paris confirmed he had been suspended because of his inflammatory remarks, and also because of the feud with his daughter which followed. 'Mr Le Pen's honorary presidency of the party is also under review, and could be removed permanently,' the source added. In words which revived accusations that the FN remains anti-Semitic, Mr Le Pen said last month that he had 'never regretted' saying the Holocaust gas chambers were relatively insignificant. Ms Le Pen immediately distanced herself from the comments saying she 'deeply disagrees' with her 'deliberately provocative' father. Share or comment on this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3ZehnWqZB |
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, Co-Founder of National Front, Is Ousted From French Far-Right Party
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Now you have all Europeans blaming each other while no one is blaming the jews and their US puppet.
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ZOG wants to water down the Front even more
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In other news though... ISIS declares rallies of France’s National Front are ‘prime targets’
For the first time, the Islamic State (IS, former ISIS, ISIL) has targeted France’s right-wing National Front (FN) party and its supporters in a statement on the pages of its French-language propaganda magazine. In the latest issue of Dar al Islam, the jihadists published a photo of an FN rally with the caption “prime targets.” “The question is no longer whether France will be hit again by attacks like those of November… The only relevant question is the next target and the date,” the text read, as cited by Le Figaro. A photo of an FN rally with the accompanying quote was tweeted by Romain Caillet, an Islamist expert and historian of global jihadist movements. More here: ISIS declares rallies of France’s National Front are ‘prime targets’ |
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National Front politician says French far-right party has ‘cabal’ headed by Jew
October 13, 2017 11:40am (JTA) — A far-right lawmaker who got suspended from France’s National Front party for equating immigrants and Nazis said she was a victim of a “cabal” headed by a Jewish party member. The conflict between the suspended senator Claudine Kauffmann and party spokesperson David Rachline erupted last week, further underscoring longstanding tensions and divisions within the nationalist party over Jews, Nazis, anti-Semitism and collaboration during the Holocaust. Kauffmann, who on Oct. 1 became the first woman senator representing the National Front, was suspended two days later following an expose by the news site BuzFeed about her, detailing a multitude of provocative statements about Muslims on social networks. In May, she posted on Facebook a color picture of brown-skinned men wearing blankets on a Paris sidewalk, juxtaposed with a black-and-white picture of Nazis wearing long Nazi-issued raincoats marching through the French capital. “If the picture on the left isn’t called occupation,” she wrote of color picture, “then you tell me how it’s called,” she wrote. Following her suspension, she said the suspension was not over the statements but a case of petty score-settling between politicians vying for party nominations. “I didn’t want to quit so now I’m an enemy of everyone on the side of David Rachline and Frederic Boccaletti,” she said, referencing the party’s spokesperson, who is Jewish, and a leader of the party in southern France. “This cabal is very hard to survive especially when it’s coming from one’s own party,” Kaufmann told the news site Public Senat. In French as in English, the word cabal, designating a clandestine and often sinister group, originates in Kabbalah, a school of thought featuring the study of the occult that originated in Judaism. It is sometimes used to imply the existence of Jewish conspiracies without openly violating laws against racist hate speech in France. National Front’s founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has several convictions for denying aspects of the Holocaust, as well as for inciting racial hatred against Jews. His daughter, who succeeded him in 2011 as party leader, has attempted to rehabilitate the party’s image, condemning the Holocaust and distancing herself from her father’s anti-Semitic rhetoric. She also kicked him out of the party for suggesting a Jewish singer who criticized the party be “put in the oven,” sparking an open row between Jean-Marie Le Pen’s brand of racist nationalism and the reform-oriented camp supporting his daughter. But In March she said that “France is not responsible” for its authorities’ actions during the Nazi occupation, when French police officers helped Nazis round up Jews and send them to be murdered. CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish communities, said this revealed National Front has not changed. Under Marine Le Pen, the National Front has seen a purge in which dozens of members were kicked out of the party for making anti-Semitic statements or expressing revisionist views about the Holocaust. She kicked her father out of the party in 2015 for making anti-Semitic statements about a Jewish singer, whom Jean-Marie Le Pen said should “go into the oven.” National Front won just over a third of the votes in the final round of the presidential elections in May. It was the best result in the history of National Front, which made it to the second round for the first time in 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen won 18 percent of the vote in the first round. https://www.jta.org/2017/10/13/news-...-headed-by-jew |
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