Le Pen is president of the far-right National Front party and perennial candidate for the presidential elections. He is known for advocating contentious viewpoints and policies: including the reinstatement of the death penalty, a revisionist approach to history (including Holocaust denial), incentives to encourage women to stay at home and have children rather than work, strong restrictions on immigration to France from countries outside Europe, compulsory military service, strict censorship of the cinema and the arts as well as withdrawal or at least far greater independence from the European Union.
The French politician, who is scheduled to stay in Serbia until Tuesday, will also be received by representatives of the Serbian Radical Party.