Former National Front (now National Rally) president Jean-Marie Le Pen was hospitalized after a "mild heart attack" on Saturday, his entourage reported, confirming information from Le Point.
"Jean-Marie Le Pen was hospitalized in a public facility in the Paris region. Her family and loved ones are worried but calm," said her adviser Lorrain de Saint Affrique, reporting that Le Pen, a historical figure of the French far right, is "aware" and accompanied.
The 94-year-old former political leader has been hospitalized several times in recent years. In February 2022, Marine Le Pen's father was hospitalized after suffering a mild stroke.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was a five-time candidate for the Elysee Palace, managing to reach the second round in 2002, only to be defeated by Jacques Chirac by an overwhelming margin.
Born on June 20, 1928 in La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan) and graduated in law, he was a legionnaire in Indochina (1953) and Algeria (1957).
First elected in 1956 to the National Assembly, he became the youngest at the Palais Bourbon at the age of 27.
Defeated in the legislative elections of 1962, he lived a long journey through the desert.
He was appointed in 1972 at the head of a new party that grouped the neo-fascists: the National Front. And he develops his favorite theme: "a million unemployed is a million immigrants too many", accusing them of taking advantage of social benefits to the detriment of the French.
In 1984, he became a member of the European Parliament, then, in the 1986 legislative elections, he won a seat in the National Assembly.

He was dismissed in April 2000 from the mandate of regional councillor of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, following his one-year disqualification for violence against a socialist candidate for the 1997 legislative elections, one of his many legal disputes.
At the end of 1998, the departure of Bruno Mégret caused the split in the FN, but despite the loss of part of her electorate, Le Pen managed to impose the FN as the main far-right movement.
The "Menhir" has never confessed any regret for his slips, controlled or not, often repeated, which have earned him several judicial convictions: from the gas chambers "point of detail in history", to "races of inequality" (1996), through the German occupation "not particularly inhumane" (2005).

Jean-Marie and his daughter Marine, in a file image. BORIS HORVATAFP


In the Parliament in Strasbourg, where he was elected several times, he will try, he says, "to defend France against Europe, against the abuses of the European Union."
The youngest of his three daughters, Marine, inherited the party in 2011. She has long said "assume all the inheritance", but finally she is overcome by this father who has become embarrassing to "disharmonize" the party. Marine Le Pen ends up expelling her father in 2015 after repeated controversies about the Holocaust.
After the historic advance of RN in the legislative elections last June, with 89 seats, he deplored "a certain media absence" of the RN deputies headed by his daughter, whom he called to "react" by being "aggressive with power."

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