Ironic News: National Front Selling its Headquarters to China
Tuesday August 12th 2008, 3:24 am
Filed under: news, politics, weird

From the nyt:

“The National Front, the French anti-immigration party, is selling its historic headquarters to a Chinese university to raise cash, the party’s leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, left, was quoted on Monday as saying. Mr. Le Pen, whose slogan in several presidential campaigns was “Keep France for the French,” confounded predictions by reaching the runoff in the 2002 presidential election. But stinging defeats in last year’s parliamentary vote have left the party deep in the red. The magazine L’Express said on its Web site that Mr. Le Pen believed that the university, which he did not name, wanted to turn the building, in the Paris suburb of St.-Cloud, into a French-language school. He did not give the sale price, but L’Express reported that it would be as much as 15 million euros, or about $22 million.” [Link]

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