article_snippet.sent: The family rift in France’s National Front deepened yesterday after National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen pulled out of regional elections – but said National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen should stand in National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen place.
article_snippet.sent: The 86-year-old’s announcement came after National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen infuriated National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen daughter Marine, the far-right party’s current leader, with a series of racist and anti-Semitic remarks last week.
article_snippet.sent: National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen had repeated
article_snippet.sent: National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, 86, right,  angered daughter Marine, 46, and now wants granddaughter Marion Marechal-Le Pen, 25, to replace National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen in regional elections .
article_snippet.sent: Next generation: Shortly after her grandfather's comments, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, 25, pictured with National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2012, confirmed that her would seek the party’s nomination .
article_snippet.sent: Now National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen has told French publication Le Figaro that National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen will not stand in the south-east Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region
article_snippet.sent: National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen said it was because National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen was at risk of being ‘dangerously weakened’ over what National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen called a severe but unjustified crisis over her grandfather's comments.
article_snippet.sent: ,National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen said the best replacement candidate would be National Front founder
article_snippet.sent: Jean-Marie Le Pen grand-daughter Marion Marechal-Le Pen, 25, who confirmed shortly after that National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen would seek the party’s nomination.
article_snippet.sent: Family feud: National Front leader Marine accused National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen father of 'political suicide' after National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen called the Holocaust
article_snippet.sent: National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen told the magazine:
article_snippet.sent: If National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen accepts, I think National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen would head a very good list (of candidates).
article_snippet.sent: National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen is certainly the best, I am not going to say after National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, but National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen is.
article_snippet.sent: Asked if he felt betrayed by he daughter, National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen told Le Figaro Magazine:
article_snippet.sent: A top party official, Florian Philippot, said on i-Tele television that National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen had discussed the decision with party leadership.
article_snippet.sent: By standing down, National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen avoids possible formal exclusion as a candidate on Friday, when the National Front’s political bureau meets to designate who will run in the December election.
article_snippet.sent: Opinion polls see National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen as likely to make it to the second round of 2017 presidential elections but not win.
highlights_snippet.sent: National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen pulls out of regional elections .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen wants grand-daughter Marion Marechal-Le Pen to replace National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen .