Le pen announces retirement in 2010
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NO MORE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AS FRONT NATIONAL LEADER SAYS HE WILL STEP DOWN IN TWO YEAR'S TIME. Front National leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has announced he will retire from the position
in 2010. "I have already passed the legal age of retirement by twenty years. Nothing is over but I will change my role," said the 80-year-old Le Pen who has led the party for 38
years. Three people are in line to take over the leadership role; Bruno Gollnisch, Carl Lang and his daughter Marine Le Pen. A survey of Front National supporters found 76% preferred Marine
Le Pen as the next leader. Jean Marie Le Pen said: "We are, Bruno Gollnisch and myself, from a generation who have lived through a number of events and have a view of things which
sometimes is not that of younger generations. "Marine is closer to the preoccupations of people. She is a young mother and I'm a grandfather." Gollnish said that Jean-Marie Le
Pen should adopt a more neutral position rather than presenting his daughter as the future of the party. Photo:Manu le Manu