The former president of the National Front (now the National Rally) Jean-Marie Le Pen was hospitalized after a "mild heart attack" on Saturday, according to his entourage, confirming information from Le Point."Jean-Marie Le Pen was hospitalized in an establishment public in the Paris region. His family and loved ones are concerned but calm," said his adviser Lorrain de Saint Affrique, reporting that Le Pen, a historical figure of the French extreme right, is "conscious" and accompanied. The former political leader The 94-year-old has been hospitalized several times in recent years. In February 2022, Marine Le Pen's father was hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke. Jean-Marie Le Pen was a five-time candidate for the Élysée Palace, managing to reach the second round in 2002, only to be defeated by Jacques Chirac with an overwhelming difference. Born on June 20, 1928 in La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan) and graduated in law, he was a legionnaire in Indochina (1953) and Algeria (1957). Elected for the first time in 1956 to the National Assembly He became the youngest at the Palais Bourbon at the age of 27. Defeated in the 1962 general elections, he lived a long journey through the desert. He was appointed in 1972 to head a new party that brought together the neo-fascists: the National Front. And he develops his favorite theme: "a million unemployed is a million more immigrants", accusing them of taking advantage of social benefits to the detriment of the French. In 1984, he became a member of the European Parliament, then, in the legislative elections 1986, he won a seat in the National Assembly.
He was dismissed in April 2000 from the mandate of regional councilor for Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, after being sentenced to a year of disqualification for violence against a socialist candidate for the 1997 general elections, one of his many judicial disputes. In 1998, the departure of Bruno Mégret caused the split in the FN, but despite the loss of part of his electorate, Le Pen managed to impose the FN as the main movement of the extreme right. The "Menhir" has never confessed any regret for his slips, controlled or not, often repeated, which have earned him several legal convictions: from the gas chambers "point of detail in history", to "races of inequality" (1996), through the German occupation "not particularly inhumane" (2005).
In the Strasbourg Parliament, where he was elected several times, he will try, he says, "to defend France against Europe, against the abuses of the European Union." The youngest of his three daughters, Marine, inherited the party in 2011. she says to "take over the entire inheritance" but is finally overwhelmed by this father who has become embarrassing to "disharmonize" the party. Marine Le Pen ends up expelling her father in 2015 after repeated controversies about the Holocaust. After the RN's historic advance in the legislative elections last June, with 89 seats, she deplored "a certain media absence" of the RN deputies headed by her daughter , whom he called to "react" by being "aggressive with power."
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