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We have seen splits and reconciliations back and forth and relations between the two have not stabilised over time. With relations already difficult it is possible there will be conflicts over the legacy of Jean-Marie Le Pen,
Given election results over the last few years, Marine Le Pen has assured the far right a place in the second round in the next presidential election. The political force is with her,
We’ve made a deal. We only talk about Macron or LFI [France Unbowed]. That way on the whole we don’t talk about the subjects likely to anger,
Don’t worry: I have not forgotten the mission you gave me 13 years ago in your letter.”
In a long post on X to the grandfather she called “Daddy”, Maréchal wrote The dirty racist is dead.” ... Happy new year, ... Jean-Marie is dead.”
Her response contrasted with celebrations seen in Paris and other cities on Tuesday night, when thousands of people gathered with banners reading, among other things ... some chanted We saw from Marine Le Pen’s expelling of her father from the party that she was willing to accept part of his legacy but not all. There will certainly be some discussions in the coming weeks”.
I cannot allow it to be said that the FN would exist without Jean-Marie Le Pen. To deny that would be grotesque … We are all heirs to Jean-Marie Le Pen,
Many people he loved are waiting for him up there. Many who love him mourn him here below,
Everyone here but you knows what that means.”
He would not answer directly but drew complicit laughter from supporters by saying It’s the death of a person we hate, because he was a racist, he hated women, he denied the Holocaust and he was antisemitic. We have to celebrate when such hateful people leave,
one demonstrator told AFP The death of a man, even if he is a political opponent, should inspire only restraint and dignity. These scenes of jubilation are deeply disgraceful,
Nothing, absolutely nothing justifies dancing on a corpse,
Retailleau said on Tuesday evening after hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of cities across France to celebrate Le Pen’s death The fight against the man is over. The fight against the hatred, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism he spread continues,
He will be remembered as the man who, in the storms, held the flickering flame of the French nation in his hands,
the National Rally itself wrote in a lengthy, effusive statement A fascist from another era is gone. But he leaves behind some very contemporary heirs,
said François Ruffin, another leading politician on the French left Respect for the dignity of the dead and the grief of their loved ones does not erase the right to judge their actions,
hard-left France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon wrote on X. Mélenchon, who was the leading leftist candidate in the past two presidential races, has in the past been unafraid to celebrate the deaths of figures he opposed I stand by this because I believe it is the truth,
he said in 2015 when asked if he regretted the gas chamber comment Lots of enemies, few friends and honor aplenty,
he said in an interview with a website linked to the far-right The president sends his condolences to his family,
A historic figure of the far right, he played a role in the public life of our country for nearly 70 years, which is now a matter for history to judge.”
Commenting on Le Pen’s death, French President Emmanuel Macron said
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