Trahisooon, disgrâââce (yes we start this paper with the words of the lion king song 2). Marine Le Pen does not take very well the fact that her niece is thinking of joining her rival in the presidential election Eric Zemmour. “I have a special story with Marion because I raised her with my sister during the first years of her life, so obviously it’s brutal, it’s violent, it’s difficult for me”,
said on CNews the candidate of the National Rally.
“I’m thinking, no decision has been made”, but “if I support Eric (Zemmour), it’s not just to hang around and say hello”, affirmed to Parisian Thursday evening Marion Maréchal, who finds that the former columnist for Figaro and CNews “has made a lot of progress in posture, tone, gravity”.
“It’s a political misunderstanding”
Apart from “the personal aspect”, “it’s a political misunderstanding because she (Marion) had indicated that she would support whoever is best placed, and unquestionably I am much better placed than Eric Zemmour since I am given in the second round “in the polls, neck and neck with LR candidate Valérie Pécresse, added Marine Le Pen.
Marion Maréchal developed Thursday with the Parisian, recalling having said to be “for the union behind the best placed. But we can clearly see that we are not taking the path of union… And I don’t know who is in the best position”. “Eric Zemmour has a greater margin of progression among the working classes and abstentionists than Marine Le Pen among the upper classes. It is difficult to get rid of an image in politics, ”added the former FN deputy (now RN).
A planned return to politics
In the fall, Marion Maréchal had said “to plead for a single candidacy behind the best placed” in order to avoid two candidacies on the far right which “risk being short-circuited”. The former elected FN adds in Le Figaro on Friday that “coherence, vision, strategy make me lean towards Eric Zemmour. For sure. But there is a family subject.
“Éric Zemmour is fighting for the disappearance of the sanitary cordon between the so-called “republican” right and us. Marine Le Pen has never been for the disappearance of this line of demarcation. She just wants to succeed in getting on the right side,” she says. The former FN MP, four months pregnant, also says that she “will go back to politics” and that she plans to stand for re-election in Morbihan or Vaucluse.