Le Pen: Jean-Marie excluded from France's Front National
- 9 years ago
Jean-Marie Le Pen has been suspended from France’s National Front, the party he co-founded.
The Honorary Party President triggered the showdown by repeating his view that the Nazi gas chambers were a “mere detail” of the Second World War.
MORE: Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of French far-right party National Front, formally excluded after hearing: http://t.co/JYGaDhGNBm— The Associated Press (@AP) August 20, 2015
After the three-hour hearing in Paris, the 87-year-old called on the party to unite:
“I wanted to treat those facing me not as judges, because I rejected them as such, but as fighting comrades and I expressed the wish that this episode, which has been rather polemic, be a stage towards an effective reunification of the National Front.”
Watchers say it is the far-right party’s latest attempt to neutralise a family feud that could hurt his daughter Marine’s bid for the upcoming presidential election.
The Honorary Party President triggered the showdown by repeating his view that the Nazi gas chambers were a “mere detail” of the Second World War.
MORE: Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of French far-right party National Front, formally excluded after hearing: http://t.co/JYGaDhGNBm— The Associated Press (@AP) August 20, 2015
After the three-hour hearing in Paris, the 87-year-old called on the party to unite:
“I wanted to treat those facing me not as judges, because I rejected them as such, but as fighting comrades and I expressed the wish that this episode, which has been rather polemic, be a stage towards an effective reunification of the National Front.”
Watchers say it is the far-right party’s latest attempt to neutralise a family feud that could hurt his daughter Marine’s bid for the upcoming presidential election.