Opponents have said party is ‘political heir’ of Vichy regime, which collaborated with Nazis, amid efforts to halt its rise
Political opponents of Marine Le Pen’s poll-leading National Rally are seizing on the far-right party’s history to try to mobilise voters against it in the run-up to France’s snap election.
Leftwing and centrist politicians have sought to remind voters that when Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founded the party – originally named Front National – in 1972, its ranks included former members of a Waffen SS military unit under Nazi command during the second world war.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/25/france-far-right-national-rally-history-1972-marine-le-pen
Author : Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Publish date : 2024-06-25 04:00:05
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