Then, shortly after 6 p.m. Paris time, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the increasingly popular party with the slogan “The French Come First,” appeared in front of three French flags and hammered ...

France's far-right National Front ran strongly in a first-round regional vote that was the first election since an attack by Islamic extremists left 130 dead in Paris. Share ...

PARIS—France’s National Front said Wednesday that 94% of party members wanted honorary chairman Jean-Marie Le Pen out of the party he helped found over four decades ago. The French far-right ...

Since National Front party leader Marine Le Pen lost the presidential election to Emmanuel Macron last May, she and her party have largely disappeared from the political scene.

He then forged the National Front in 1972 with wartime Nazi collaborators and veterans of France’s colonial disasters in Algeria and then-Indochina. ... at a court in Paris on November 13, 2024.

After over a decade working in politics — both running for positions and working in roles like campaign management — Le Pen launched the National Front in 1972. The party was created alongside ...

In 1956, Le Pen was elected to the National Assembly as a Paris MP on the ticket of the anti-tax populist Pierre Poujade. Re-elected in 1958, then defeated in 1962, he founded a record company ...

He then forged the National Front in 1972 with wartime Nazi collaborators and veterans of France’s colonial disasters in Algeria and then-Indochina. ... at a court in Paris on November 13, 2024.