Jean-Marie Le Pen, ... He stood for president five times, most successfully in 2002 when he shocked France by defeating Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round of voting, ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, ... He stood for president five times, most successfully in 2002 when he shocked France by defeating Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round of voting, ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, ... Just four days before the first round of the 2002 French presidential election, the then-Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin, relaxed and smiling, ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, a domineering and polarizing figure in French politics and founder of the National Rally party, died at age 96. National Rally President Jordan Bardella announced his death on ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen was born in the Breton coastal village of Trinité-sur-Mer on June 20, 1928. His father, a fisherman, was killed in 1942 during World War II when his boat struck a mine.

Jean-Marie Le Pen: rabble-rousing co ... It paid off in 2002, when he unexpectedly beat the Socialist PM Lionel Jospin into third place in the first round of the presidential election, ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party Front National, has died.He was 96. His family confirmed the news in a statement sent to the AFP and said he died “surrounded by his ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, ... He got close to winning during the 2002 presidential election when he beat socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round to face Jacques Chirac in the second round.

For half a century, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front founder who has died at the age of 96, remained on the far-right fringes of French politics — a xenophobe nostalgic about France’s ...

Originally Jean Louis Marie Le Pen, he changed his name to Jean-Marie to attract Catholic voters during his first parliamentary election campaign in 1956. He was elected as a supporter of Pierre ...