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'''Jean-Marie Le Pen''' is an "[[extremist]]" [[right-wing]] French politician who ran for president in 2002 who called for stricter controls against [[immigration]] in [[France]], in order to preserve French culture. He has also denied aspects of the Holocaust, has said that the [[Nazi]] occupation of France was not severe, and said that [[AIDS]] patients should be isolated. He is the leader of the nationalist [[National Front]] party and ran in the [[2007 French presidential elections]] coming in forth with 10.4% of the vote.<ref>Le Monde [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/vi/0,47-0@2-823448,54-899922@51-899913,0.html]</ref>
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'''Jean-Marie Le Pen''' (born 1928) was the leader of the nationalist [[National Front]] party and ran in the [[2007 French presidential elections]] coming in fourth with 10.4% of the vote.
  
His immigration policies were called racist by some of his opponents. However, his supporters were sufficiently numerous in 2002, propelling him to the [[runoff]] round of the French Presidential election, that [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] felt compelled to court them in the 2007 election by running well to the right of his predecessor [[Jacques Chirac]], who had appointed him [[interior minister]], although Sarkozy's message always emphasized [[economic]] reform, rather than immigration. This strategy paid off; Sarkozy, always a front-runner, defeated [[Socialist]] [[Ségolène Royal]] in the runoff round.
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In 2002, he made international headlines by making it to the second round of the 2002 presidential elections.
  
He is also famous for predicting the riots by "oppressed Africans" ([[Muslims]]) that occurred within France for several weeks in October and November 2005.  His supporters believe that his policies on immigration might have prevented this outbreak of violence caused by a leftist government trying to be too "politically correct". This position on immigration was popular enough that Sarkozy co-opted it for the run-off election in 2007 and eventual victory.
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In September 2008, he announced his intention to resign by 2010, 36 years after he founded the party, and supported his daughter to succeed him.  With his party in steep decline both politically and financially, and his recent convictions for Holocaust denial, Le Pen has lost considerable power in recent years.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2798961/French-far-right-leader-Jean-Marie-Le-Pen-sets-retirement-date.html</ref>
  
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==Comments on the French riots of 2005==
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*Le Pen described the ... violence as "just the start" of conflicts caused by "massive immigration from countries of the Third World that is threatening not just France but the whole continent."
  
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*Le Pen said people with immigrant backgrounds who commit crimes should be stripped of their French nationality and sent "back to their country of origin."
  
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*French nationality should be given only to those who ask for it and "who are worthy of it," he said. "Those who got nationality automatically, who don't consider themselves French and who even say publicly that they consider France their enemy should not be treated as French."
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*Le Pen said he is convinced that what he described as a surge in support for his "zero immigration" platform would translate into votes at the ballot box for his National Front party.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8DP4IE02&show_article=1</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 13:15, April 2, 2019

Jean-Marie Le Pen (born 1928) was the leader of the nationalist National Front party and ran in the 2007 French presidential elections coming in fourth with 10.4% of the vote.

In 2002, he made international headlines by making it to the second round of the 2002 presidential elections.

In September 2008, he announced his intention to resign by 2010, 36 years after he founded the party, and supported his daughter to succeed him. With his party in steep decline both politically and financially, and his recent convictions for Holocaust denial, Le Pen has lost considerable power in recent years.[1]

Comments on the French riots of 2005

  • Le Pen described the ... violence as "just the start" of conflicts caused by "massive immigration from countries of the Third World that is threatening not just France but the whole continent."
  • Le Pen said people with immigrant backgrounds who commit crimes should be stripped of their French nationality and sent "back to their country of origin."
  • French nationality should be given only to those who ask for it and "who are worthy of it," he said. "Those who got nationality automatically, who don't consider themselves French and who even say publicly that they consider France their enemy should not be treated as French."
  • Le Pen said he is convinced that what he described as a surge in support for his "zero immigration" platform would translate into votes at the ballot box for his National Front party.[2]

References

  1. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2798961/French-far-right-leader-Jean-Marie-Le-Pen-sets-retirement-date.html
  2. https://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8DP4IE02&show_article=1