The result has not been decided yet, but Ms. Le Pen's father has already bought wine to celebrate?

The father of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen spent more than 8,500 euros ($9,300) on bottles of wine to celebrate his daughter’s victory, but the money was paid for by European Union (EU) taxpayers.

Jean-Marie Le Pen's wine bill at a high-end wine shop included dozens of bottles of Bollinger, Dom Perignon and Laurent Perrier champagne.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen hugs her father. (Photo: AP)

Big-name French wines such as Pomerol Chateau Vieux Ferrand were also among the 100 bottles that arrived at Montretout, the Le Pen family's residence outside Paris, in December 2016.

However, all the invoices for the purchases were sent by Mr. Jean Le Pen to the European Parliament in Brussels, where he is still an MEP, for payment, the leading investigative news site Paris Mediapart revealed.

Mr Jean, a racist and anti-Semitic, is the founder and honorary president of the National Front and is currently backing Ms Marine, 48, in her bid for the Élysée. He himself reached the second round of the 2002 French presidential election but was defeated by a landslide by conservative candidate Jacques Chirac.

Marine Le Pen has claimed there was a rift between father and daughter but many suspect this was engineered to help her appeal to moderate voters.

Mediapart wrote that Mr Jean Marie Le Pen used "public funds, which are theoretically meant for MPs to pay for secretaries and related expenses, to buy alcohol".

All the wines came from Lavinia, a luxury wine shop in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, and were delivered on December 28, 2016, just in time for the start of the French presidential election campaign.

Mr Jean even asked the store to put a "European Parliament" label on the bottles, but it is unclear whether Lavinia did so.

Several sources familiar with the incident - which will become the subject of a European parliament inquiry - said Mr Le Pen was in a "festive mood" at the time.

Sources say he appeared to have been drinking heavily to celebrate his youngest daughter's passage through the first round of the election.

Ms Le Pen is now preparing to face independent candidate Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the election on 7 May. According to the latest opinion polls, Mr Macron is predicted to be the winner.

So far, neither Marine Le Pen nor the National Front have commented on the party's financial scandal.

Meanwhile, French prosecutors are investigating allegations that Ms Le Pen gave party members fake jobs in the European Parliament. They are said to have been paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in taxpayers’ money without doing any work in Brussels.

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