In the show An intimate ambition, Marine Le Pen spoke to Karine Le Marchand about the fact that her father, Jean-Marie, did not warn her of her religious marriage with Jany. Far from being offended in front of the cameras, the leader of the National Rally remained pragmatic: “But when you are in politics, you learn a lot from the press. You have to get used to it.“Is it through the media that she learned that the one who founded the National Front sang the praises of his daughter, distancing himself from Eric Zemmour whose speech he recently praised?
In an interview for The Telegram, Jean-Marie Le Pen addressed the Zemmour case. In the show Further investigation devoted to the almost candidate polemicist, the 93-year-old politician did not hide his sympathy for the essayist. According to polls in October, he appeared in the second round, overtaking Marine Le Pen. The latter’s father then indicated that he would support the “better placed“in the elections, even if it means choosing the former columnist for the benefit of his daughter. But that was before the voting intentions for Eric Zemmour stagnated, while the controversies he launched, recently his criticism of the attacks of November 13 and the role of François Hollande, begin to serve him.
“I predicted that Eric, whom I like, was going to hit a ceiling“, explains Jean-Marie Le Pen.”Politics is a difficult job to learn. As a journalist, he could choose his targets. He was the one you don’t shoot at. There, he will take hits and he is probably not prepared. He is not up to the event“, he adds. This is how he will praise the experience of his youngest child: “Marine, she still has a certain job. She has suffered cruel failures and she is able to face them better.“He calls the ex-journalist’s outings courageous statements but believes he has”burned his cards without realizing it“. A way of reaching out to Marine Le Pen?
In 2015, with his exclusion from the National Front followed by the removal in 2018 of his status as honorary president of the party, relations between father and daughter had not improved. The politician oscillates between the admiration of a girl for her father who raised her, with her sisters, alone after the departure of their mother, and the inheritance as important as cumbersome that it represents. One thing is certain, the 2022 presidential candidate will never be able to get rid of him.