French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she will never forgive herself for expelling her father Jean-Marie Le Pen from the party he founded and she rebranded, after he died last week aged 96.

When, in 2011, Marine Le Pen took over as head of the National Front (FN) party he founded four decades earlier, she quickly took steps towards making it electable – rebranding it the National Rally (RN) and cleaning up its image in a policy known as “de-demonisation”.

  • solo@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    No matter how her narrative is now:

    In 2015, the younger Le Pen expelled her father from the party after a public clash over her public moderation. “I wonder: Did you really do this?” Le Pen asked herself, according to an account she told French television in 2019. “Because it seemed so insane. But we had no choice. It was either that or the movement would disappear.”

    From How Le Pen turned respectable (and why you shouldn’t be fooled) - Politico, I think this article is an ok overview (with some issues imo, but not in relation to her father).