Published on January 7, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. / Modified on January 7, 2025 at 1:12 p.m.
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The news of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, announced by his family to AFP, will have embarrassed a lot of people. First of all, French journalists, because it is frowned upon to speak ill of the dead. The right-wing of certain French titles will perhaps allow praise that was still impossible a few years ago, but the others will have to juggle with words so as not to be too harsh. Closer to power than ever, the leadership of the party that the deceased created must itself be bothered, because it is not every day that we have to bury the founder of such an important political movement while being unable to eulogize it smugly.
This episode recalls another, that of the “FN/RN jubilee” of October 2022. Left aside from the very sober official conference organized by the National Rally (RN) parliamentary group to celebrate the 50 years of the party under the entitled “From hope to power”, Jean-Marie Le Pen was to organize his own unofficial party, at Montretout, the private estate which housed his mansion in the inner suburbs of Paris. The ambitions of this party had been drastically reduced. And the conference was very academic, nothing festive, rather an opportunity to establish the new institutionalization of the party. Without Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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