If the departure of Gilbert Collard, former MEP of the National Rally who joined the Reconquest party of Eric Zemmour was a blow for Marine Le Pen, she must face a new painful media intervention: that of her niece Marion Maréchal. In the columns of Parisian, the one who is expecting a second child explained that she was thinking of joining the famous far-right polemicist and would give her answer in a month. No way for her to join her mother’s sister Yann Le Pen, because she does not validate her “constant ideological and programmatic back and forth“. On the set of Laurence Ferrari for C News this January 28, 2022, the head of the RN returned to the rapprochement between her niece and the author of France has not said its last word.
“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“, reacted on CNews the candidate of the National Rally for the presidential election. Besides “the personal aspect“, “it’s a political misunderstanding because Marion had indicated that she would support whoever is best placed, and undoubtedly 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. In the fall, Marion Maréchal said”advocate for a single candidacy behind the best placed” in order to avoid two far-right candidates who “rrisk of short-circuiting“.
At the end of the program, the presenter returns to the words of Marion Maréchal and asks her guest if she called her. Marine Le Pen hardly hides her embarrassment and her emotion: “We’ll try to keep it private. A little, please. I’m a little shy about those things. Don’t violate my modesty.” To which the journalist responds: “We see your emotion, and we feel it this morning.“
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 marriage of her niece with Vincenzo Sofo.