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14 h 54. “I was born Le Pen, in 1972, the year the FN was created. I have been in care since 1993. It pains me, but we knew he was seriously ill,” reacted to the NR Éric Soulat, RN regional advisor for Vienne and historical close friend of Jean-Marie Le Pen.
“I met him at his home with a journalist from Poitiers who is writing his memoirs. The image of the RN has changed. Jean-Marie Le Pen said things that many people disagreed with, including me, but he was not racist.he adds.
14 h 51. “The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen does not inspire me much more” that the fact “that for me it was a person with detestable ideas that I have always fought”reacted to the New Republic the non-registered deputy for Vienne Sacha Houlié.
14 h 46. On the social network XÉric Ciotti, the president of the Union of Rights for the Republic (UFR), ally of the RN, welcomed “a complex man, with gray areas but also courage and sincere patriotism”, “profoundly French”Who “served France with passion” and whose “disappearance marks the end of a page of the Ve Republic ».
14 h 34. In a press release, published at the beginning of the afternoon by the Élysée, “the President of the Republic expresses his condolences to his family and loved ones”.
Jean-Marie Le Pen is described there as a “historical figure of the extreme right”. Rather laconic, the press release simply emphasizes that “he played a role in the public life of our country for almost seventy years, which is now subject to the judgment of history”.
14 h 03. Beyond “clashes”, Jean-Marie Le Pen “will have been a figure in French political life”said Prime Minister François Bayrou.
For Bruno Retailleau, Minister of the Interior, “he will undoubtedly have marked his era”.
14 h. The National Rally published a press release to pay tribute to its founder: “With him a page in French political history turns. […] Founder of the National Front in 1972, he had raised, in adversity and opprobrium, this small patriotic party without means or future, to the rank of political groups that count and, it is indisputable, left no one indifferent. His audience with the French led him to the second round of the presidential election. »
13 h 55. “Beyond the controversies, beyond the scandals, what we will remember about him in the coming decades is that he was among the first to alert France of the existential threats that awaited it,” writes Éric Zemmour, the president of the Reconquest party, on X.
13 h 50. Marine Le Pen is expected to land in France late this evening, reports The World. She does not plan to react immediately, specifies those around her, who asked the television channels not to send cameras when the flight lands.
13 h 43. For Sébastien Chenu, RN deputy from the North, the disappearance of Jean-Marie Le Pen is that of a “huge patriot” who is ” between “ in the History of France.
While Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout la France, describes it as “monument of French political life”.
13 h 39. Marine Le Pen, his daughter, learned of her father’s death from journalists, while she was making a stopover in Kenya, returning from her visit to Mayotte, according to a journalist from Franceinfo.
13 h 35. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of rebellious France “respect for the dignity of the dead and the grief of their loved ones does not erase the right to judge their actions. Those of Jean-Marie Le Pen remain unbearable.”
13 h 30. In his political camp, the first tributes are emerging. Thus, Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, greets on “tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament” Who “has always served France, defended its identity and its sovereignty”.
13 h 25. His family announced the death, Tuesday January 7, 2025, of the former politician, founder of the National Front and father of Marine Le Pen. He was notably hospitalized in November 2024.
Founder of the National Front and finalist in the 2002 presidential election, he had seen his health deteriorate for several years.
