Political journalist Catherine Nay interviewed Jean-Marie Le Pen for a long interview published in The Sunday newspaper February 6, 2022. The onset of stroke is only a distant memory now. Without filter, the co-founder of the Front National expresses himself in particular on the family and political soap opera of the moment, the one which features Marine Le Pen, his daughter and presidential candidate, and his niece, Marion Maréchal who does not wish to vote for his aunt and gets closer and closer to Eric Zemmour.
If Jean-Marie Le Pen explains that despite the tensions between the members of his family, “we still love each other“, things are complicated from an outside point of view. Especially when you know that his youngest daughter, Yann, and mother of Marion Maréchal, occupies the second floor of her house in Rueil.
In terms of political choice, Jean-Marie Le Pen assumes to support his daughter, even if it was Marine Le Pen who had him expelled from the party in 2015: “‘I prefer my daughters to my niecesmy nieces to my cousins, my cousins to my neighbours, etc…’ I support the candidacy of Marine Le Pen. I do not understand that Marion supports a stranger in relation to the familyhowever nice.” He also does not understand his return to politics after stepping away from it in 2017, when she has other life projects, a second baby expected for the month of June, adds the historical figure of the French extreme right. Before, he saw his niece as a “Flawless Navy“, which he had sent in 2012 to Carpentras for “wash the honor of the family“after the desecration of Jewish graves.”Misunderstanding and disappointment. Marion did not warn him when she gave up her mandate as a deputy. Just as he learned, from an AFP dispatch, that she no longer wanted to be called Le Pen“, adds the JDD.
The 93-year-old politician then sweeps away with one hand what his daughter said, when she spoke about the distances taken by Marion Maréchal, on CNews. The one who talks more and more about her private life since this campaign revealed, with wet eyes in front of Laurence Ferrari, that it was she who raised Marion Maréchal in her early years alongside her sister Yann since Marion’s biological father does not did not recognize her and that she was adopted at 2 years old by Samuel Maréchal – Yann Le Pen and he will remain married until 2005. Jean-Marie Le Pen reestablishes his truth: “Yann raised her daughter alone, Marine tells stories.”
Support of the leader of the National Rally, Jean-Marie Le Pen succeeds in the balancing act of also praising the former polemicist converted into politics whom he appreciates: “Zemmour, I like it very much. He puts my ideas back into the campaign. It is he who is being attacked, he is the man of the extreme right. Maybe he’s doing Marine a favor.“