France's far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen addresses her supporters as part of a May Day party lunch in Paris, France, Sunday, May 1st, 2016. On background is a portrait of Joan of Arc — the party's patron saint . Jean-Marie Le Pen, a founder and the decades-long leader of France's far-right National Front, declared Sunday that his daughter, Marine Le Pen, the party president who has expelled him, will lose next year's presidential race if she fails to unify the party. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

French far right party punishes Jean-Marie Le Pen’s allies

PARIS – Marine Le Pen’s far right National Front has punished two leading party figures for attending a Paris rally led by her father.

The party announced Monday that Bruno Gollnisch and Marie-Christine Arnautu were removed from the anti-immigration party’s decision-making political bureau because of their “unacceptable” participation in an event led by people “violently hostile” to the National Front.

Marine Le Pen expelled her father, party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, from the National Front last year for comments diminishing Nazi gas chambers.

The Le Pens held dueling May Day rallies on Sunday, both railing against foreigners in France. Jean-Marie Le Pen warned that his daughter wouldn’t achieve her dream of the presidency if she doesn’t re-unite the party.

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