When, in 2011, Marine Le Pen took over as head of the National Front (FN) party he founded four decades earlier, she quickly took steps towards making it electable – rebranding it the National Rally (RN) and cleaning up its image in a policy known as “de-demonisation”.
No matter how her narrative is now:
In 2015, the younger Le Pen expelled her father from the party after a public clash over her public moderation. “I wonder: Did you really do this?” Le Pen asked herself, according to an account she told French television in 2019. “Because it seemed so insane. But we had no choice. It was either that or the movement would disappear.”
From How Le Pen turned respectable (and why you shouldn’t be fooled) - Politico, I think this article is an ok overview (with some issues imo, but not in relation to her father).
No matter how her narrative is now: (etc) and why you shouldn’t be fooled.
Exactly .