Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of France’s far-right National Front, has died at 96, Sebastien Chenu, a senior party official, said Tuesday. A polarizing figure in French politics, Le Pen was known for his fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front party and a controversial figure in French politics, has died at the age of 96, French media said on Tuesday. Le Pen reached the second round of the 2002 French presidential election,