France's National Front Expels Founder Le Pen

France's far-right National Front expelled founder Jean-Marie Le Pen on Thursday in a bid to shed the party's anti-Semitic reputation and bolster his daughter Marine's prospects in a presidential election bid. The decision to sideline the 87-year-old Le Pen was taken by the Front's executive committee after several hours of discussions with him. "At the end of the meeting held today, the executive committee of the Front National...deliberated and decided, by the...

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