French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died

SKY NEWS ^ | Jan 7 | SKY NEWS

[RandFan]

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the French far-right National Front party, has died aged 96.

Le Pen shook the French political establishment when he unexpectedly reached the presidential election run-off vote against Jacques Chirac in 2002.

Despite losing in a landslide, he rewrote the parameters of French politics in a career spanning multiple decades, harnessing voter discontent over immigration and job security - heralding president-elect Donald Trump's own rise.

Throughout his career he faced accusations of racism, and his controversial statements included Holocaust denial.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting.

[AndyJackson]

far-right politician

So, I take it was a patriot who loved his country.

[Roadrunner383]

Anyone more conservative than Joe Stalin is ‘far right’ to the media.

[SaveFerris]

96?

[Tax-chick]

One really can’t say, “Oh, how sad,” when a person was 96, but his family and friends have my sympathy.

[Red Badger]

Why are there NEVER any ‘far-left politicians’?..............

[joshua c]

center left is as far as they will go

[erlayman]

Marine Le Pen went to court formally kick him out of the party for a reason. Holocaust denial was almost the least of it.

[null and void]

Hey, me mum is 96...

[bert]

I have begun to think 100

[Tax-chick]

Good on ‘er!

[null and void]

She might well make it to 100, physically.

[null and void]

Aye.

[Skooz]

Not a commie = “far right”

[Robert DeLong]

I had no clue she was that old.

[SeanS]

The father died. Marine is still alive.

[null and void]

My post was about me mum, not very clear from the context, sorry.

[iamgalt]

“Far right” AKA a patriot

[caddie]

LePen pere was a conservative trailblazer, took oceans of abuse for trying to turn French government and culture rightward.

So much abuse, for instance, that some DHs spray-painted "LePen Nazi!" on every .0001 steradian of every wall and building in Paris around 1985.

So lame that the commies do that. Here and in Europe. Call someone beating them in an argument a Nazi. So cowardly!

Now the leftist press still calls anyone not Maoist in theory and practice "extreme right wing" or "far right wing".

It is progress, no?

Remember to call all wokes and liberals "Communists". It sounds a little off-putting now, but is the truth, unlike the calumnies LePen pere suffered.