Marine Le Pen, France's National Front political party head, addresses a news conference at the European Parliament in Brussels May 28, 2014. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
PARIS (Reuters) - Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front (FN), rebuked her father and former party head on Sunday for remarks reviving long-standing allegations of anti-Semitism soon after a major poll victory.
Marine Le Pen, who took over the anti-immigrant and anti-EU party from Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011, said a controversial quip he made about a French Jewish singer that included an implied reference to concentration camp ovens had been misinterpreted.
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