{"id":573,"date":"2015-07-27T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2021-01-14T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:12:24","slug":"france-father-vs-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/en\/france-father-vs-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"France\/ Father vs. Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p>Will Jean-Marie Le Pen, 87, start a new party against his daughter Marine ?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and former president of France&rsquo;s National Front, will be charged for public antisemitic remarks he made earlier this year, according to the French ministry of Justice. While interviewed on April 2 on BFMTV, a television channel, he insisted that <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&laquo;&nbsp;gas chambers are just a minor point in WW2 history, unless one says that WW2 is just a minor point of the history of gas chambers&nbsp;&raquo;<\/em>. Under French law, such as statement can be construed as Holocaust denial, a criminal offense. Le Pen has repeatedly expressed similar views for about twenty five years. In 1991, he was sentenced to a heavy fine &ndash; the equivalent of 183 000 euros in curent terms &ndash; for his very first <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&laquo;&nbsp;minor point&nbsp;&raquo;<\/em> statement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>Jean-Marie Le Pen sees such prosecutions as a further instance of the <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal&quot;>&laquo;&nbsp;legal persecution&nbsp;&raquo; <\/em>he has been subjected to throughout his political carreer. Yet a French court vindicated on July 8 his claim that his daughter Marine Le Pen, the current National Front president, is not legally empowered to convene a party congress in order to strip him of his honorary presidency and possibly to expell him altogether. According to the court, the National Front statutes are worded in such a way that only a global congress comprising of all 51 551 paying members, can make such decisions. <span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>Indeed, an open war has erupted between father and daughter. Jean-Marie Le Pen has been increasingly critical of Marine, who is eager to act as a responsible and law-abiding politician rather than as an extremist demagogue, and is distancing herself from antisemitism or Holocaust denial. Marine, in turn, has charged him of deliberately sabotageing the National Front&rsquo;s new image and preventing her to win either the forthcoming regional next December or the 2017 presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>Jean-Marie Le Pen was supposed, in spite of his age &ndash; he is 87 -, to lead the National Front list in the Provence-C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Azur (Paca) region in South-Eastern France in the December elections. In the wake of the BFMTV interview case, Marine replaced him by the young &ndash; she is only 25 -, alluring and charismatic niece Marion Mar&eacute;chal-Le Pen. The move was initially seen as a compromise, since Marion was supposed to remain in afectionate terms with her grandfather Jean-Marie and to be slightly more rightwing than Marine. However, it soon became apparent that Marion was following Marine&rsquo;s party line. In particular, she undertook to discard veteran National Front militants as candidates on her list and to coopt classic conservatives in place of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>As a result, many rejected candidates are now talking about launching their own list against both Marine and Marion. Moreover, Jean-Marie said on July 20 that he was <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>&laquo;&nbsp;considering&nbsp;&raquo;<\/em> joining them. Some obervers think that a dissident National Front can weaken Marine Le Pen&rsquo;s party just enough to deprive it of clearcut victories in many constituencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>&copy; Michel Gurfinkiel, 2015<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Will Jean-Marie Le Pen, 87, start a new party against his daughter Marine ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/en\/france-father-vs-daughter\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: France\/ Father vs. Daughter &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[655],"tags":[761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}