The rallying, or not, of Marion Maréchal to Eric Zemmour’s party has caused a lot of ink to flow. Marine Le Pen did not hide her emotion, describing as violent and brutal the statements of her niece who clearly indicated that she would not support her aunt for the 2022 presidential elections. map of empathy by understanding the “pain” of his opponent from the National Rally, for whom family ties are mixed with politics. However, not everyone welcomes Jean-Marie Le Pen’s granddaughter with open arms within the young movement that is Reconquête , as indicated Point.
In its edition of February 3, 2022, Point investigates this story of betrayal between the Le Pens and Eric Zemmour. If Marion Maréchal is ideologically close to the essayist with her conservative and identity positions, she is not necessarily expected by all the members of the former journalist’s party. To start with his partner, Sarah Knafo.
Both director of her campaign and beloved of the presidential candidate, Sarah Knafo has in common with Marion Maréchal youth – the first at 28 years old, the second at 33 years old -, passion and an immoderate taste for history. French. However, according to Point, their relationships remain of a “cold polished“. The weekly highlights in particular the exact role that Marion Maréchal could play: “The question of the position she could occupy is far from being settled. No one wants to share the light“, indicates those around him, recalling, without saying it, that Eric Zemmour owes his entry into the campaign to the young enarque who is increasingly in the spotlight. Yann Le Pen’s daughter would she have been fooled by approaching Eric Zemmour since last fall to give credibility to his party without having the promise of a post afterwards? “Marion was trapped like a blue“, enraged some of her relatives, who recently begged her, in a written note, not to commit, adds Point.
Last September, Marion Maréchal and Eric Zemmour saw each other in Budapest at the rally of the European nationalist right. Which had more than ever strained relations between the one who moved away from the RN in 2017 and her aunt. We remember that the leader of the National Rally had also been absent from the wedding of her niece with Vincenzo Sofo.
Pregnant with her second child expected for the month of June – she is already the mother of Olympe, born from her previous marriage with the entrepreneur Matthieu Decosse –, Marion Maréchal is in a very intense period of her life.
Find the full article in the magazine Point from February 3, 2022