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The National Rally, known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018, is a French far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and nationalist. It is the single largest parliamentary oppos
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
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Jean Louis Marie "Jean-Marie" Le Pen was a French politician who founded the far-right National Front party. He served as the party's president from 1972 to 2011 and as its honorary president from 201
National Rally
…protection of "French identity", and stricter control of illegal immigration. The party was founded in 1972 by the Ordre Nouveau, and notably by Jean-Marie Le Pen; former Nazi (Waffen-SS) members Pierre Bousquet and Léon Gaultier; neo-Nazi sympathizers such as François Duprat; and supporters nostalgic for French…
Official portrait, 1999
Jean-Marie Le Pen, November 2005
Le Pen with his second wife, Jany Paschos, at the National Front's annual march to the statue of Joan of Arc, Place des Pyramides, Paris, May Day 2007
Le Pen at a signing for his memoirs in 2019