Jean-Marie Le Pen was hospitalized in a public institution in the Paris region. The 94-year-old former political leader has been hospitalized several times in recent years.

He has been a candidate for the Elysée Palace five times, reaching the second round in 2002, only to be defeated by Jacques Chirac. Marine Le Pen finally expelled her father in 2015 after repeated polemical remarks about the Holocaust. He had deplored "a certain media absence" of the RN deputies led by his daughter, calling on them to "react"