In 2002, he unexpectedly made it to the second round of the presidential election, winning 18% of the vote in the first round ...

The founder of France's National Rally party, and father of Marine Le Pen, pioneered Trump-style populist, anti-immigrant politics.

The polarizing figure was known for antisemitic and sometimes racist rhetoric – on immigration, Islam, Holocaust denial and ...

He co-founded what became France’s biggest opposition party, National Rally, rooted in deep anti-immigrant sentiment.

Le Pen founded the populist and Eurosceptic political party National Front, which is now led by his daughter and is the ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's far-right National Front, passed away at 96. Known for fiery anti-immigration rhetoric, he was a polarizing figure with multiple legal convictions. Despite being ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday aged 96, was the far-right bogeyman of French politics, infamously dismissing the ...

Mr Le Pen helped re-write the parameters of French politics in a career spanning 40 years. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right nationalist who made the Front National a leading force in French politics has died at the age of 96 ...