For his second participation in the M6 show An intimate ambition, Marine Le Pen received Karine Le Marchand at her home, in her apartment with garden in the Parisian suburbs. Surrounded by her animals – she graduated as a cat breeder -, from the Bengal breed, the president of the National Rally, vying for the 2022 presidential election, wished to remove the mask of the political leader to show that of wife. She thus agreed, not without hesitation, to talk about her private life. She thus returned to the religious marriage of her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2021 with Jany, a ceremony that she discovered through the press.
On January 16, 2021, the former FN leader Jean-Marie Le Pen religiously marries Jany, Jeanne-Marie Paschos by her real name. The couple had already been civilly married for a long time, since May 31, 1991, but the lovers decided at the age of 93 for him, and 89 for her, to say yes to each other in a church, in front of Father Philippe Laguérie. Jany Le Pen, born to a Greek father, a painting dealer, and a Franco-Dutch mother, was married to Belgian businessman Jean Garnier. The couple, who have no children, divorced in 1984. The following year, she met the founding president of the National Front during a party she organized. They then settled in the family estate of Montretout.
In An intimate ambition, his daughter Marine returns to the announcement of this news by watching the intervention of his mother Pierrette, first wife of the politician from 1960 to 1987 and with whom he will have three daughters, Marie-Caroline, Yann and Marine. “We did not understand. Nobody knew about it. He didn’t invite anyone, he didn’t care. But the girls were a little upset that their father was getting married without inviting them. All the explanations were bogus. He’s quite original … I’ve never been bored with him“, says the mother of Marine Le Pen.
When Karine Le Marchand asks Marine Le Pen to confirm that she learned of her father’s religious wedding in the press, she replies: “Yes. Very nice. It’s not overly pleasant to learn about marriage from the press, but hey. But when you are in politics, you learn a lot from the press. You have to get used to it.” A new illustration of the complicated relationship between father and daughter, he who has been sidelined from his party by the latter.