National Front may sanction le pen

Paris The man who for nearly four decades built France’s far-right National Front into a political force may be on the fast track to disgrace. The party’s executive bureau was meeting Monday to decide possible sanctions against Jean-Marie Le Pen over his anti-Semitic remarks amid a high-stakes family feud. His daughter Marine Le Pen — the current party leader — and other rising stars within the party want the 86-year-old to be quiet and stop damaging their efforts to modernize the party’s image. Ahead of the decision, the party’s broader political bureau said it “disapproves the comments made and reiterated by Jean-Marie Le Pen,” and affirmed its confidence in his daughter, to ensure that “nothing can divert (the party) from its goal of gaining power in the service of France and the French.”