France's National Front founder Le Pen rebuffs daughter's call to quit
PARIS - French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen rejected on Friday a call from his daughter, the party@@@s leader, to leave politics over comments he made that she fears will hurt her push to widen the right-wing party@@@s appeal.Marine Le Pen said on Thursday she would seek disciplinary action against her father after the 86-year-old was quoted this week calling France@@@s Spanish-born Prime Minister Manuel Valls "the immigrant".He also defended Philippe Petain, the leader of the war-time government that cooperated with Nazi Germany. Last week he defended a past comment that Nazi gas chambers were a "detail of history".ByREUTERS06/08/2025 07:57 AMByREUTERS06/08/2025 05:36 AMByMAARIV06/07/2025 02:33 PMByWALLA!06/07/2025 11:18 AMByREUTERS06/07/2025 03:25 AM
