As he left, Le Pen, who is an MEP, told journalists: The honorary president, founder of the Front N

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In an additional blow to the veteran far-right politician, who caused vintage a political row in 2002 when he won his way into the second round of the presidential elections, Le Pen faces being stripped of his role as honorary president of the party.
FN members will be asked to vote on a definitive change of the party s rules at an extraordinary general assembly to be held within the next three months. In the interim, Le Pen s membership of the party has been suspended.
Le Pen had earlier stormed out of the FN headquarters after refusing to attend the disciplinary hearing. He said he had been disowned by his political family and that it was beneath his dignity to face FN officials when he was perfectly innocent vintage .
Le Pen was summoned to Monday s hearing vintage after allegedly making racist and antisemitic remarks vintage to the anger and dismay vintage of his daughter Marine, the FN president, who has spent years trying to clean up its image. vintage
He caused outrage by repeating his view that the Nazi gas chambers were just a detail of the second world war and saying he had never considered Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of the collaborationist Vichy government, a traitor .
On Monday, hours after Marine Le Pen said her father should not be allowed to speak on behalf of the party, Jean-Marie Le Pen turned up for a meeting to decide on FN candidates for the regional elections in December.
When FN officials took the opportunity to pass a motion condemning his proposals, he flounced out of the party headquarters at Nanterre on the outskirts of Paris and refused to attend the disciplinary hearing vintage called for the afternoon.
As he left, Le Pen, who is an MEP, told journalists: The honorary president, founder of the Front National, believes it is below his dignity to appear before a disciplinary panel when he considers he is perfectly innocent.
I am acting in my role as a parliamentarian who is paid to speak. I am speaking on behalf of Jean-Marie Le Pen. I don t speak on behalf of the FN and haven t done for the last four years since Marine Le Pen became president of the FN.
He responded furiously to his suspension from the FN on Monday night, which he described as a felony , and threatened to take legal action. He also lashed out at Marine, the youngest of his three daughters, who he said he was disowning.
I am ashamed that the president of the Front National vintage has my name and I hope she loses it as soon as possible. She could either marry her concubine or Monsieur Philippot or anyone else. I d rather the president of the FN was no longer called Le Pen.
Party officials earlier expressed their total confidence vintage in Marine Le Pen, estranged from her father after a series of public spats. She has called for on her father to retire from political life and some of the party s young guard suggested he could be excluded from the party he founded in 1972. Others said such a move was unthinkable and would, according to one who spoke to Le Monde, open the gates of Hell .
Aliot said Le Pen was disowning himself. He said: He is a member of the FN and he has to respect the rules. If he doesn t respect them, then he s the one excluding vintage himself from the FN s political line.
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