Since the FN, founded by Waffen-SS, to the RN of today, they will remain the same: anti-Semitic, racist, conspiracy theorists. The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, joked that he better understood "why Bardella could say that Jean-Marie Le Pen was not anti-Semitic," while the national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, also revisited the history of the FN-RN: "Since the FN, founded by Waffen-SS, to the RN of today, they will remain the same: anti-Semitic, racist, conspiracy theorists." (translated)