Blue, White and Red Rally

Blue, White and Red Rally Rassemblement Bleu Blanc Rouge
Leader	Jean-Marie Le Pen
Founded	5 September 2015
Split from	National Front (France)
Ideology	French nationalism
Political position	Far-right
Colours	Blue
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Blue, White and Red Rally (French : Rassemblement Bleu Blanc Rouge) is a French nationalist political association ^[1] in France founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen.

History

The family feud between expelled French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and Marine Le Pen, his daughter, deepened on 5 September 2015 when he launched the rival right-wing party. Mr. Le Pen, 87, who was expelled from the FN in August 2015, told supporters in the city: 'You will not be orphans. We can act in a similar way to the FN, even if we are not part of it.' ^[2]

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National remarked 'He does what he wants, he is a free man.' The row with her father erupted in April 2014, when he defended comments he had made in the past about how the Nazi gas chambers of the Second World War were a 'detail' of history. Ms. Le Pen, who succeeded her father as leader in 2011, dismissed his move. Mr. Le Pen was stripped of his FN membership by the party's executive committee in August following a damaging five-month family feud with his daughter over a string of inflammatory comments. He dismissed the hearing as a 'mockery' and an 'ambush' and blamed Ms. Le Pen, who took over from him as leader in 2011, of pulling the strings from afar. 'It's dirty to kill your own daddy, so she didn't kill daddy directly, she did it through her henchman,' Mr. Le Pen told French radio at the time. The elder Le Pen has been a persistent problem for his daughter as she tries to smooth over the overt racism and xenophobia of the party's past. The final straw came in April when he rehashed familiar comments about the gas chambers and said France should get along with Russia to save the 'white world'. Ms. Le Pen then openly split with her father, saying he was committing 'political suicide'. But he vowed to 'reconquer' the party he founded in 1972. ^{[3] [4]}

He confirmed he would support his granddaughter Marion Maréchal-Le Pen for the next regional elections and that he wanted to influence the National Front's ideology with his association. He also praised Marine Le Pen's speech in Marseille on 6 September 2015, describing it as "lepéniste". ^[5]

References

1. "Le " Rassemblement bleu blanc rouge ", la surprise de M. Le Pen". Le Monde.fr. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
2. "French Front National founder creates new party after expulsion". Reuters.com. Reuters. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
3. "National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen creates new party" . Retrieved 24 April 2018.
4. "FN founder Le Pen to create new far-right faction - France 24". 6 September 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
5. magazine, Le Point (7 September 2015). "Migrants - Jean-Marie Le Pen salue le discours "100 % lepéniste" de sa fille" . Retrieved 24 April 2018.