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Jean-Marie Le Pen suspended after Front National disciplinary hearing
Source: The Guardian
Jean-Marie Le Pen suspended after Front National disciplinary hearing
Kim Willsher in Paris
Monday 4 May 2015 20.03 BST
Jean-Marie Le Pen has been suspended from the Front National, the party he founded, after a disciplinary hearing on Monday afternoon.
In an additional blow to the veteran far-right politician, who caused a political row in 2002 when he won his way into the second round of the presidential elections, Le Pen faces being stripped of his role as honorary president of the party.
FN members will be asked to vote on a definitive change of the party’s rules at an extraordinary general assembly to be held within the next three months. In the interim, Le Pen’s membership of the party has been suspended.
Le Pen had earlier stormed out of the FN headquarters after refusing to attend the disciplinary hearing. He said he had been “disowned” by his political family and that it was “beneath his dignity” to face FN officials when he was “perfectly innocent”.
Le Pen was summoned to Monday’s hearing after allegedly making racist and antisemitic remarks to the anger and dismay of his daughter Marine, the FN president, who has spent years trying to clean up its image.
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Kim Willsher in Paris
Monday 4 May 2015 20.03 BST
Jean-Marie Le Pen has been suspended from the Front National, the party he founded, after a disciplinary hearing on Monday afternoon.
In an additional blow to the veteran far-right politician, who caused a political row in 2002 when he won his way into the second round of the presidential elections, Le Pen faces being stripped of his role as honorary president of the party.
FN members will be asked to vote on a definitive change of the party’s rules at an extraordinary general assembly to be held within the next three months. In the interim, Le Pen’s membership of the party has been suspended.
Le Pen had earlier stormed out of the FN headquarters after refusing to attend the disciplinary hearing. He said he had been “disowned” by his political family and that it was “beneath his dignity” to face FN officials when he was “perfectly innocent”.
Le Pen was summoned to Monday’s hearing after allegedly making racist and antisemitic remarks to the anger and dismay of his daughter Marine, the FN president, who has spent years trying to clean up its image.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/jean-marie-le-pen-front-national-disciplinary-hearing
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