3. The FN’s Ideology Under Jean-Marie Le Pen and Marine Le Pen

Through mainly qualitative textual analysis of FN party documents before and after 2011, this chapter highlights that there is very little change in the FN ideology and program between Le Pen father and Le Pen daughter. The FN was and continues to be the prototypical radical right-wing party. It has always and still advances a simplistic frame that pushes anti-immigrant, anti-establishment and nationalist sentiments. However, there has been change in the form and rhetoric, which the FN elites use to communicate their message and advance their positions. Contrary, to the old FN, the new FN at the leadership level uses an acceptable language, condemns anti-Semite statements and situates its statements within a republican discourse.