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Jean-Marie Le Pen, Founder of French Far-Right Party Front National, Dies at 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right party Front National, has died. He was 96.
The latter ended up winning the election with a 82% vote which reflected Le Pen’s highly polarizing profile and the French people’s visceral reaction to his racist and xenophobic rhetoric. He was sued and fined many times over the course of his career for denying crimes against humanity, going as far as calling the Holocaust a “mere detail” in the history of World War 2 and praising France’s Vichy government which collaborated with the Nazis, claiming it wasn’t responsible for the deportation of Jews. Marine Le Pen’s notoriously clashed with her father over his incendiary comments which worked against her efforts to broaden the appeal of her nationalistic and populist party.
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