France's far-right Le Pen splits publicly with father in political family feud
Her father's latest anti-Semitic comments were the last straw for the leader of the National Front. Marine Le Pen has decried her father's "vulgar provocations."
The bitter feud between the leader of France's far-right National Front (FN), Marine Le Pen, and her father, the founder of the party, came to the foreground on Wednesday as the younger Le Pen openly split from 86-year-old Jean-Marie.
Marine Le Pen, who has steered the party to electoral successes since taking over leadership of the party in 2011, accused her father of sabotaging FN's efforts to move into the political mainstream.
Jean-Marie, who was only last week defending a comment that Nazi gas chambers were a "detail of history," called France's Spanish-born Prime Minister "the immigrant" on Tuesday in an interview with right-wing magazine Rivarol. In the article, he also defends Philippe Petain, leader of the wartime government that cooperated with Hitler's Germany.
http://www.dw.de/frances-far-right-le-pen-splits-publicly-with-father-in-political-family-feud/a-18367057
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This apple hasn't really fallen that far from her old man's tree.
She just knows that blatant anti-semitism is a non-starter in France and wants to 'clouer le bec' of her dad before he can do any more damage.
She's worked long and hard to refurbish the fascist Front National into a 'NEW and MORE USER-FRIENDLY movement, with notable success.
