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Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front party and a controversial figure in French politics, has died at the age of 96, French media reported on Tuesday.
Le Pen reached the second round of the 2002 French presidential election, in a moment that shocked France and led voters to vote strongly for his opponent Jacques Chirac to block the far right from power.
His daughter Marine Le Pen succeeded him as party leader in 2011 and twice reached the second round of the presidential election. She sought to soften the party’s image, renaming it Rassemblement National and excluding her father from the party.
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