Le Pen’s daughter assumes mantle of party leadership
Marine Le Pen, the 42-year-old daughter of the far-right firebrand, won slightly more than two-thirds of the vote in an election at a party convention in the central French city of Tours.
The party said yesterday she easily beat the other candidate, longtime party No 2 Bruno Gollnisch.
The 82-year-old party founder bid farewell yesterday with an impassioned defence of his polemic anti-immigration, anti-Islam platform. He created the party in 1972.
