Jean-Marie Le Pen sets up rival party to daughter Marine's Front National

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French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen has launched a new party
He was expelled last month following a damaging five-month family feud
Mr Le Pen fell out with his daughter over inflammatory comments he made
Announcement of party overshadowed gathering of Marine's Front National

Published: 19:31 EST, 6 September 2015 | Updated: 00:44 EST, 7 September 2015

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The family feud between expelled French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter deepened yesterday when he launched a rival Right-wing party.

The announcement of the party, to be called the Blue-White-Red Rally after the colours of the French flag, overshadowed a gathering of daughter Marine's Front National in Marseille.

Mr Le Pen, 87, expelled from the FN last month, told supporters in the city: 'You will not be orphans. We can act in a similar way to the FN, even if we are not part of it.'

The family feud between expelled French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter Marine deepened yesterday when he launched a rival Right-wing party. The pair are pictured together

Miss Le Pen, who succeeded her father as leader in 2011, dismissed his move.

'Everyone is free outside the National Front to create any group he wants. This poses no problem,' she told reporters on the sidelines of the FN meeting.

'He does what he wants, he is a free man.'

The row with her father erupted in April last year, when he defended comments he had made in the past about how the gas chambers of the Second World War were a 'detail' of history.

Polls suggest she could make it to the second, run-off round of the presidential election in 2017, but that she would then lose.

Miss Le Pen, who succeeded her father as leader in 2011, dismissed his move

Mr Le Pen was stripped of his FN membership by the party's executive committee last month following a damaging five-month family feud with his daughter over a string of inflammatory comments.

He dismissed the hearing as a 'mockery' and an 'ambush' and blamed Miss Le Pen, who took over from him as leader in 2011, of pulling the strings from afar.

'It's dirty to kill your own daddy, so she didn't kill daddy directly, she did it through her henchman,' Mr Le Pen told French radio at the time.

The elder Le Pen has been a persistent problem for his daughter as she tries to smooth over the overt racism and xenophobia of the party's past.

The final straw came in April when he rehashed familiar comments about gas chambers being a 'detail' of history and said France should get along with Russia to save the 'white world'.

Miss Le Pen then openly split with her father, saying he was committing 'political suicide'.

But the former Foreign Legionnaire has refused to go quietly, vowing to 'reconquer' the party he founded in 1972.