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03/28/2009: "Rule change blocks Le Pen from European Ceremonial Post"

The main groups in the EU parliament agreed Wednesday to stop Jean-Marie Le Pen chairing the chamber at its next inaugural session, after the French far-right leader downplayed Nazi death camps.

Joseph Daul, head of the European People's Party - the biggest grouping in the parliament - backed the idea launched by the socialists and supported by the Greens to "do everything possible" to prevent Le Pen from taking the chair.

Earlier Le Pen caused a storm in the parliament by insisting that the Nazi death camps were a "detail of Second World War history," repeating a statement originally made in 1987 that shocked France.

[ As the oldest man, Le Pen is entitled to this position. But typically the goal posts are moved whenever there is a threat to the status-quo. ]

http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1237997821.56