France's Front National (FN) is considering legal action in a bid to force the country's media to stop referring to the anti-immigration, anti-EU party as "extreme right", reports GlobalPost.
Party leader Marine Le Pen claims it is unfair for the party founded by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen to be lumped together with the likes of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik and Greece's Golden Dawn party.
"We are absolutely not a party of the right, those who think that are making a total analytical error," Marine Le Pen said Thursday.
"I'm considering seeking a judicial ruling that the description 'extreme right' is a pejorative term deliberately used to damage the Front National.
"For journalists to label the FN like this is unethical, biased and intellectually sloppy."
Since taking over as the head of the FN in 2011, Marine Le Pen has attempted to reposition a party whose image has long been closely linked to the personality of her father, target of a string of convictions for incitement to racial hatred and holocaust denial.
Read more of this AFP report published by GlobalPost.