Jean-Marie Le Pen, an unabashed nationalist and founder of the French far-right National Rally party, has died aged 96, sources close to his daughter Marine Le Pen said on Tuesday. JORDAN BARDELLA, CHAIRMAN OF THE FAR-RIGHT NATIONAL RALLY "Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead.

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Mr Le Pen's long political career was all about belligerence, anger, regret and scapegoats - but it would be wrong to write him off as merely an agitator.

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

A Holocaust denier and unrepentant extremist on race and immigration, the far-right politician has died at 96.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, an unabashed nationalist and founder of the French far-right National Front (Front National) party, has died aged 96, French media said on Tuesday. Le Pen shook the French political establishment when he unexpectedly reached the presidential election run-off vote against Jacques Chirac in 2002,

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party, the National Front, has died at the age of 96, according to French network BFMTV.