The co-founder of the National Front was hospitalized Tuesday night near Paris, after a "persistent fever". His days are "not in danger," said his entourage.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, 90, was hospitalized this Tuesday evening, near Paris, because of a "persistent fever" , but his days are "not in danger," said his entourage. "The medical entourage of Mr. Jean-Marie Le Pen has deemed necessary hospitalization to prevent any complications," wrote a statement in his office.
The co-founder of the National Front, renamed in June Rassemblement National (RN), "is in a positive mood" but he had to "postpone most of his commitments in the coming days," said his adviser Lorrain Saint Affrique.
Already hospitalized early June
Mr. Le Pen, who chaired the FN nearly 40 years, had already been hospitalized for ten days in June near Paris, for a "dangerous pulmonary complication" of bacterial origin, after a first hospitalization for a contracted influenza beginning April. He had celebrated his 90th birthday at the hospital on June 20th.
His daughter Marine Le Pen, who succeeded him in 2011 as President of the RN, had visited him while the father and daughter are politically scrambled. Marine Le Pen had excluded his father from the FN in 2015 for his controversial comments on the gas chambers.