French National Front leader Marine Le Pen has urged her father, party founder Jean Marie, to retire from politics.
The 86-year-old last week defended past comments that Nazi gas chambers were a “detail of history”.
He was then quoted as calling France’s Spanish-born Prime Minister Manuel Valls “the immigrant” and defending Philippe Petain, leader of the French war-time government that cooperated with Nazi Germany.
Le Pen senior’s latest controversial comments, in the far-right weekly newspaper Rivarol, proved to be the last straw in an increasingly bitter family feud – prompting his daughter to launch disciplinary proceedings against him.
Marine Le Pen told French television on Thursday: “Jean-Marie Le Pen should show some wisdom. He should draw the consequences of the trouble he himself has created and perhaps give up his political responsibilities.”
On the streets of Paris, some strongly backed Marine Le Pen’s stance.
Nathalie, one resident of the French capital, said it