Jean-Marie le Pen holds honorary membership FN

versailles - Jean-Marie le Pen remains honorary president of the French populist party Front National. This has been decided by a judge on appeal. The party has rightly withdrawn its membership, but its title is retained, reports the newspaper Le Figaro.

The decision is the last move in a legal joust between the founder of the party and his daughter Marine, who is now party leader. She withdrew his membership after he had again spoken about the gas chambers as 'just a detail of the history' of the Second World War.