Published on 07/01/2025 15:14
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Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen: what relationship did he have with his daughter?
Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen: what relationship did he have with his daughter?
(France 2)
Died this Tuesday, January 7, Jean-Marie Le Pen maintained complex relations with Marine, his third daughter who became his political heir at the head of the National Front. A look back at their bond and their shared career.
In 2011, Jean-Marie Le Pen handed over the reins of his party to his daughter, Marine, after 39 years of presidency. But at 83, is he really giving up his position, or does he still want to keep control through his third daughter? It is true that the politician has often put his family first.
Marine Le Pen joined the National Front in 1986 and ran in her first elections six years later. Having become a lawyer, Marine Le Pen will little by little find her place in the party. When she represented her father on TV after the thunderclap of the 2002 presidential election, she impressed him with her maturity. But Jean-Marie Le Pen’s strategy, made up of clashes, upsets his daughter. It was with her entourage that Marine Le Pen began to implement the strategy of demonizing the FN.
Watch the full report in the video above.
