Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front (FN), rebuked her father and former party head on Sunday for remarks reviving allegations of anti-Semitism after a major poll victory.
Le Pen, who took over the anti-immigrant and anti-EU party from Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011, said a quip he made about a Jewish singer that included an implied reference to concentration camp ovens had been misinterpreted.
But for an experienced politician like her father, she said, "not to have foreseen how this phrase would be interpreted is a political mistake the National Front is paying for."