The place of Jean-Mari Le Pen in the list of the National Front in the regional elections will take his granddaughter

The place of the founder of the National Front of Jean-Mari Le Pen in the hospital in the upcoming regional elections in France will take his granddaughter-Marion Maresal-Le Pen, Yahoo-News reports citing AFP. It should be noted that the elderly Le Pen, who had previously had a fight with his daughter, the current party leader Marine Le Pen, and because of this refused to participate in the elections in the Provence -Alpa - azure coast, he himself wanted his granddaughter to stand at the head of the list instead of him.

In 2012, the 25-year-old pretty blonde Marion Maresal-Le Pen was elected to parliament, becoming the youngest deputy of the French National Assembly. Jean-Mari Le Pen always noted her high potential for the party, which is in dire need of young politicians.

Currently, Le Pen is the honorary president of the National Front. However, after repeated scandalous statements, the politician his daughter Marin Le Pen said that her father "entered the spiral between the tactics of scorched earth and political suicide." And the vice-president of the National Front Florer Filippo noted that there was a "full and irrevocable political gap" of the party with its founder.

The day before, the founder of the right batch was hospitalized. According to some reports, he has "small heart problems." According to other sources, 86-year-old Le Pen was hospitalized for a "completely standard inspection". The politician himself in an interview with AFP stated that he was "in order", and asked him to give him a rest.

The leadership of the "Popular Front" passed to Marin Le Pen from his father in 2011. He headed the party permanently since 1972. After the leader’s change, the popularity of the party began to grow. In the 2012 presidential election, Le Pen took third place with 18% of the vote after Hollande and Sarkozy. Since then, the popularity of the current president has decreased due to recession and growing unemployment, and the support of Le Pen and its party has grown.

In May 2014, the National Front gained 25% of the vote in the European Parliament in France. In September 2014, the party first received places in the Senate. At the same time, Marin Le Pen constantly had to apologize for the words of his father, who threatened the singer of Jewish origin, then joked that Ebola’s fever would help regulate the demographic situation. The French press was lamented about the unsuccessful attempts of Marin to correct the dubious reputation of the party.