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          French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died

          Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the French far-right National Front party, has died aged 96.

          Le Pen shook the French political establishment when he unexpectedly reached the presidential election run-off vote against Jacques Chirac in 2002.

          Despite losing in a landslide, he rewrote the parameters of French politics in a career spanning multiple decades, harnessing voter discontent over immigration and job security - heralding president-elect Donald Trump's own rise.

          Throughout his career he faced accusations of racism, and his controversial statements included Holocaust denial.

          Jean-Marie Le Pen obituary

          After leading the then-National Front from 1972 to 2011, he was succeeded as party chief by his daughter, Marine Le Pen.

          She has since run for the presidency three times and turned the party, now called the National Rally, into one of the country's main political forces.

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