He denounced her and told her to marry so that she could no longer have the family name and said it would be "scandalous" if his daughter won in the 2017 French presidential elections after the way she treated him.
Le Pen senior challenged the suspension in the courts and Thursday won his case and re-instatement to the party. Lawyer Frederic Joachim told local media:
"Mr Le Pen can from tomorrow morning… start using his office again and all the means that were at his disposal and sit in all the bodies in which he was taking part as honorary president."
Marine Le Pen Backed by Party
Jean-Marie Le Pen has courted controversy through the years. In May 1987, he advocated the forced isolation from society of all people infected with HIV.
Judge in Nanterre says suspension of Jean Marie Le Pen from Front National by his daughter illegal and the old goat has to be reinstated
— Denis MacShane (@DenisMacShane) July 2, 2015
He was accused and convicted several times at home and abroad of xenophobia and anti-Semitism and made several provocative statements interpreted by the legal system as constituting Holocaust denial.
However, according to Reuters, National Front deputy leader Florian Philippot played down any consequences from the ruling, saying party members were in any case being consulted on cancelling the honorary president title in an on-line vote that closes on July 10.
"No one thinks that he speaks in the name of the FN anymore anyway," he told BFM TV. Asked if he still had support within the party, Philippot laughed and said there was unanimity behind Marine Le Pen.
