Jean Louis Marie Le Pen is a French politician who served as President of the right-wing National Front from 1972 to 2011. He also served as Honorary President of the National Front from 2011 to 2015.
Le Pen in 2007
Jean-Marie Le Pen, November 2005
"Jany" Paschos, his second wife, with Le Pen at his National Front party's annual march to the statue of Joan of Arc, Place des Pyramides, Paris, May Day 2007
The National Rally, known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018, is a French nationalist and right-wing populist party in France. It is the largest parliamentary opposition group in the National Assembly; it has seen its candidate reach the second round in the 2002, 2017 and 2022 presidential elections. It is an anti-immigration party, advocating significant cuts to legal immigration and protection of French identity, as well as stricter control of illegal immigration. It also advocates for a 'more balanced' and 'independent' French foreign policy by opposing French military intervention in Africa and by distancing France from the American sphere of influence by leaving NATO's integrated command. It supports reform of the European Union (EU) and its related organisations. It also supports economic interventionism and protectionism, and zero tolerance of breaches of law and order. The party has been accused of promoting xenophobia and antisemitism.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the National Front from 1972 to 2011
Bruno Mégret and his faction broke out from the FN to form the MNR party
Logo for Le Pen's 2002 presidential campaign
National advertisement in Marseille for Le Pen's 2007 presidential bid
