The words are becoming clearer, and with them the political position. Less than twenty-four hours after saying, to Parisian, ” reflect “ to support Eric Zemmour, Marion Maréchal added on Friday January 28, nearby Figaro, that she “lean” for the latter, of which she praises “coherence, vision, strategy”.
The niece of Marine Le Pen sees a more general reason to prefer the founder of Reconquest to the candidate of the National Rally (RN), despite the family ties that unite her to the latter. And says it sharply:
“Eric Zemmour is fighting for the disappearance of the sanitary cordon between the so-called right”republican” and U.S. 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. »
Marion Maréchal also confides her intention to “doing politics again” after observing a relative decline for five years.
“If I support Eric, it’s not just to pop a head and say hello”, had she already declared the day before to the Parisian, judging that the Reconquest candidate had done “a lot of progress in posture, tone, seriousness” since entering the campaign on November 30, 2021. “I don’t know who is best. The campaign is still long. Eric Zemmour has a greater margin of progression among the working classes and abstainers than Marine Le Pen among the upper classes”, she analyzed.
“Scenario”
Marine Le Pen was offended by these remarks, Friday morning on CNews. “It’s brutal, it’s violent”, declared the candidate of the National Rally, and “It is a political misunderstanding, because she had indicated that she would support the best placed. (…) I am the best placed in the second round [par rapport à Eric Zemmour] ».
According to the latest wave of the Ipsos-Sopra Steria opinion survey for The world, the Jean Jaurès Foundation and the Cevipof, carried out via the Internet from January 14 to 17, Marine Le Pen would be chosen by 15.5% of voters in the first round, tied with the candidate Les Républicains (LR), Valérie Pécresse (margin of error of plus or minus 0.8 point), against 13% for Eric Zemmour (margin of error of plus or minus 0.7 point).
Marion Maréchal and Eric Zemmour had participated, at the end of September 2021, in the Demography Summit of the Hungarian far-right leader, Viktor Orban, in Budapest. On this occasion, she had already declared that the “second round scenario” of 2022 was not played.
“The bib and the checkbook”
Marion Maréchal distances herself from her aunt just a few days later the rallies to Mr. Zemmour by Gilbert Collard, Jérôme Rivière and Damien Rieu, from the RN. “There are always people in a campaign who change sides (…), who have personal ambitions, commented Marine Le Pen on CNews. “But the presidential election is the relationship with the French”, who, according to her, have nothing to do with “campaign vicissitudes”.
Faced with her rival on the far right, she defended that “the French expect solutions, not brutality and violence”. The RN candidate “feels” that Eric Zemmour and his teams “have the will to [la] make lose ». Returning to her changes in position, in particular regarding the European Union, Marine Le Pen also pleaded: “I am a pragmatist, not an ideologue. »