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| French National Front expels founder Jean-Marie Le Pen | French National Front expels founder Jean-Marie Le Pen |
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| France's Jean-Marie Le Pen has been expelled from the far-right National Front (FN) following a feud with daughter and party leader Marine. | France's Jean-Marie Le Pen has been expelled from the far-right National Front (FN) following a feud with daughter and party leader Marine. |
| Mr Le Pen, who was honorary president, was dismissed after a three-hour extraordinary party congress. | |
| He was initially suspended back in May, after he repeated his view that the Holocaust was "a detail of history". | |
| Ms Le Pen took over as leader in 2011 and has tried to steer the party away from its racist and anti-Semitic past. | |
| The National Front (FN) was founded by Mr Le Pen in 1972. The 86-year-old still holds a seat in the European Parliament and a post as a regional councillor in the south of France. | |
| His dismissal from the party follows a series of remarks regarded as inflammatory and a feud with his daughter. | |
| Earlier this year he restated his characterisation of the Holocaust as a "detail" - a view he first expressed in 1987 - and also said he had never considered France's wartime collaborationist leader Philippe Petain a traitor. | |
| Ms Le Pen has said in the past that her father should "no longer be able to speak in the name of the National Front". |