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The elected official from Loiret, who even demonstrated against the former president of the National Front in 2002, is presented as a good student holding conservative positions, particularly on abortion.
Surreal scene on the BFMTV set, Wednesday November 8. The National Rally (RN) deputy for the third constituency of Loiret, Mathilde Paris, is invited to provide after-sales service for the comments of Jordan Bardella, a few days earlier on the same channel. “I don’t believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen was anti-Semitic”, had screwed up the president of the RN. Does she think the same thing? The answer might seem easy: the founder of the Front, which became the National Rally in 2018, has been condemned several times for his anti-Jewish remarks. But the elected frontist, as if sucked into a vortex, gets tangled: “I’m not saying that, I’m saying that there was clearly an ambiguity…” Follow-up from the interviewers: “Is he anti-Semitic, yes or no?” Silence. “I have my opinion on the matter.” New relaunch. “Personally, I think he was, that’s it”ends up letting go of the deputy, with the face of a condemned woman who has just heard her sentence.
The difficulty of making such an obvious judgment is all the more surprising given that Mathilde Paris, 38, has almost no connection with the founder of her far-right party. Better: she demonstrated against him in 2002, after he reached the second round of the presidential election. His coming to the Front would have been