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Le Pen sells party HQ to Chinese
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Aug 12, 2008 10:00am |
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| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Tuesday, August 12, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | France's anti-immigrant party, the National Front, is selling its headquarters to a Chinese university, according to the party leader.
Jean-Marie Le Pen has confirmed that the party base has been purchased by a Shanghai university.
Mr Le Pen, 79, has campaigned to become president several times under the slogan "Keep France for the French".
But his party faces growing financial difficulties. It has already sold its bullet-proof car on eBay.
The party has a total debt of some 9m euros ($13.4m; £7m), according to French newspaper Le Monde, partly due to a poor showing in the 2007 legislative elections which meant it had to cover its own campaign costs.
"A formal sale offer has been signed with a university in Shanghai," the National Front's press service said, quoted by AFP.
The unnamed Chinese higher education institution has reportedly paid between 12 and 15m euros ($18 - 22m; £9.4m - 11.7m) for the sprawling mansion in the western Paris suburb of Saint Cloud, known as The Cruiseliner. |
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