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Marine Le Pen, center, and Jean-Marie Le Pen, left, stand at the front of a crowd holding a large banner at a National Front rally in Paris, with French flags in the background.
Annual rally of the National Front National Front leader Marine Le Pen (middle) and her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen (left), at the party's annual rally in Paris, several weeks before the group placed first in France's elections for the European Parliament, May 2014.

National Rally

political party, France
Also known as: FN, Front National, National Front, RN, Rassemblement National(Show More)
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National Rally, far right French political party founded in 1972 by François Duprat and François Brigneau. It is most commonly associated with Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was its leader from 1972 to 2011, and his daughter Marine Le Pen, who succeeded her father in 2011 and led the party until 2022. Since its beginnings, the party has strongly supported French nationalism and controls on immigration, and it often has been accused of fostering xenophobia and...

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