France's far-right Front National (FN) party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen poses in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris, on January 27, 2016.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Jean-Marie Le Pen, the candidate's father, is a president of the financial association Cotelec which has often lent money to the National Front and continues to do so despite his expulsion from the party.
Marine Le Pen will borrow the sum gradually, by installments, David Rachline said, as cited by Le Parisien newspaper on Saturday.
Jean-Marie Le Pen had been the leader of the National Front since its creation in 1972 until 2011. In 2015, he was suspended and later expelled from the party he co-founded. Marine Le Pen has been the president of the party since then.
The French will elect a successor to incumbent President Francois Hollande in two rounds of voting in April and May 2017.
