PARIS, November 6 (RIA Novosti) — Marine Le Pen, leader of France's Front National Party, urged European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker to resign over a tax evasion scandal in Luxembourg, said in a Thursday statement on the party's website.
"This practice sheds light on the detestable practices led for 18 years by the man who is now president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, in this tax haven [Luxembourg] at the heart of Europe", Marine Le Pen stated.
"In the face of this international scandal… the Front National calls for the resignation of M. Juncker and immediate explanations from successive governments about these tax evasion practices about which, everything suggests, they were informed," Le Pen said.
The incumbent EC President was Luxembourg's prime minister for 18 years.
On Wednesday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed a database of "Luxembourg Leaks". According to the documents available on the project's website, around 340 multinational companies signed secret agreements with Luxembourg authorities, which allowed them to pay less tax in an eight-year period starting in 2002.
The list of the companies involved in the scandal includes Apple, Amazon, Pepsi and IKEA.
In July, the European Parliament endorsed the EC president nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker. In late October, he assumed the position replacing Jose Manuel Barroso.
