Marine Le Pen, parliamentary leader of France’s far-right National Rally, on Wednesday commemorated the death of her father and the party’s founder. Jean-Marie Le Pen.
“A venerable age had taken the warrior, but given us our father back,” she wrote on the platform X. “Death has come to take him away from us again,” she added.
The founder of the far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front died on Tuesday at the age of 96.
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“Many people he loves are waiting for him up there. Many people who love him are crying for him down here,” Marine Le Pen wrote.
The father-daughter duo had had a difficult relationship for years.
Marine Le Pen broke politically with her father after he repeatedly thwarted her strategy to rebrand the party and adopt a more moderate approach to make it more electable for the political centre.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was later expelled from the party, which then changed its name in 2018.
Marine Le Pen was reportedly informed of her father’s death on her return from the French overseas territory of Mayotte.
In her X post, she bid farewell to Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was the son of a fisherman from Brittany, with a phrase commonly used by the navy: “Fair winds and following seas, Dad.”
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