MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, the FN executive committee dismissed Le Pen, who used to be its honorary president, after a three-hour extraordinary party congress.
"When they notify me of this decision, I will, of course, attack it before the competent authorities," Le Pen said, speaking to the I-Tele broadcaster.
In May, Jean-Marie Le Pen was stripped of his membership in the right-wing party by FN president and his daughter, Marine Le Pen, after his characterization of the Holocaust as "merely a detail in history" drove a wedge within the party.
In early July, however, France’s High Court of Nanterre overturned the FN party’s decision to suspend the membership of its founder.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, right, and his daughter Marine Le Pen sit at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, eastern France
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