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Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of the French far right, dies at 96

Paris | Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s National Front who ran for president five times and lived to see his anti-immigrant rhetoric go mainstream, has died. He was 96.

Jordan Bardella, president of the far-right National Rally, the successor party to the National Front, confirmed his death on X.

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