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Published: Friday, June 12, 2015 - 8:18 p.m.

Last updated: Friday, June 12, 2015 - 8:32 p.m.

The loan National Front to remove the honorary presidency of Jean-Marie Le Pen

The number 2 of the National Front Florian Philippot said Friday that the abolition of the post of honorary president, occupied by Jean-Marie Le Pen would be submitted to members of the party. It was the same day in Nanterre court to challenge his suspension of the FN.

Jean-Marie Le Pen challenging his exclusion from the FN in court while the party proposes to abolish the post of honorary president. © Charles Platiau / Reuters

The day Friday looked like a skirmish in the National Front. The same day that Jean-Marie Le Pen stood at the Grande Instance of Nanterre court to challenge his suspension of the party , Florian Philippot, vice president of the FN, announced that the political bureau of the party would submit to members abolition of the post of honorary president. A position created especially for the founder of the FN. Its abolition therefore looks more like an attempt to ouster of Jean-Marie Le Pen.

This change in party statutes will be submitted to members by mail ". Couriers will leave to members, since the coming days all will be ready tonight, couriers will leave, and we will have the final results by July 10" , said Florian Philippot. This approach is criticized by Jean-Marie Le Pen who prefer it a "physical" congress.

The existence of the post of honorary president is not the only issue in this vote .The activists will speak comprehensively on several reforms of the party led by Marine Le Pen. According to Florian Philippot, they should promote "greater internal democracy" and allow "restore democratic competition within the National Front."

The action for justice Jean-Marie Le Pen, the FN number two prefer to think that the crisis is over and that in any case "p ar his remarks extremely offensive, abusive, inflammatory, Jean-Marie Le Pen has to Anyway himself disqualified. "

At the hearing the court of Nanterre, Jean-Marie Le Pen has denounced him removing"illegal, abnormal and excessive" of its membership status of the FN, issued on 4 May.According to his lawyer, he is a maneuver to "deprive any representativeness" Jean-Marie Le Pen before the congress. The court is expected to vote on July 2.

Since the words of Jean-Marie Le Pen in an interview to the newspaper Rivarol , Marine Le Pen and his followers had tried to push the father of the latter to the exit. But they encountered the refusal of "Standing Stone".

Author: Writing FranceSoir.fr

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