A few weeks before the presidential elections, Jean-Marie Le Pen, 93, was hospitalized on February 2, 2022 evening in the Paris region after being the victim of a “mild form of stroke“. The days of the former president of the National Front (now National Rally) are not in danger, AFP learned the next day from his entourage, confirming information from CNews.
“Examinations show there is no imminent threat that has been medically identified“, specified his adviser Lorrain de Saint Affrique. “He is hospitalized as a precaution, not for observation. He will return home probably on Saturday or Sunday.“He suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA), which is a”mild form of stroke“, when he lost during “1 minute to 1.5 minutes vision“during a dinner on Monday evening at his home in Hauts-de-Seine. A doctor friend came to his home to observe him until his appointment on Wednesday evening, which followed an interview with AFP journalists. during which the former politician showed no trouble.
The historical figure of the French far-right has experienced several health problems in recent years, in addition to the fact that he suffered last year from a milder form of Covid-19, discovering in a blood test traces of antibodies to this virus, recalls AFP. At the end of September 2018, he had been hospitalized for more than a week due to a “persistent fever“, but all risk of bacterial infection had been ruled out. In June of the same year, he had been hospitalized for ten days for a “dangerous pulmonary complication” of bacterial origin, after a first hospitalization for a flu contracted at the beginning of April. He had then celebrated his 90th birthday in the hospital, on June 20, 2018, before gathering at home, ten days later, family and friends to celebrate this birthday.
This new incident comes in the context of the race for the presidency, in which his daughter Marine Le Pen participates. In recent days, tensions have arisen in this political family, in particular because of rallies to his opponent on the far right, the conservative Eric Zemmour, like that of Gilbert Collard. The granddaughter of the president of the Jeanne Committees – created after his exclusion from the FN -, Marion Maréchal, is for her part in reflection on the subject.