Marine Le Pen’s father, 94, was taken to a hospital. According to the daughter, he is doing well.
Long-time leader of France’s far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been hospitalized with heart problems – according to his daughter, the 94-year-old is “fine”. The latest information on his health is “reassuring”, Marine Le Pen said in a radio program on Sunday. “I haven’t seen him yet, but it won’t be long.”
Her father is “glorious” approaching his 95th birthday, said Marine Le Pen, who took over France’s far-right leadership from her father in 2011. It is “from time to time” necessary to make “certain settings” in hospital. The right-wing populist also asked for respect for her father’s privacy. The most important information is that her father is “fine”.
The 94-year-old politician was hospitalized in the Paris region on Saturday, according to his adviser Lorrain de Saint Affrique. His family and friends were with him. Le Pen has had to be hospitalized several times in recent years, for example in February 2022 due to a minor stroke.
Le Pen was expelled from his own party
Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the National Front party in 1972 on the far right. He ran for French president five times. In 2002, he reached the second round of the presidential election against incumbent Jacques Chirac, sending shockwaves across France.
In 2015, Jean-Marie Le Pen was expelled from the party after, among other things, he repeatedly described Nazi gas chambers as a “detail” of World War II history and was convicted several times for doing so. In 2018 he also lost the honorary chairmanship of the party. It has since been renamed the Rassemblement National, led by Le Pen’s daughter Marine Le Pen.
(APA/dpa)