the deputies “do not deny at all the political heritage” of the FN

The National Rally celebrates the 50th anniversary of the creation of its ancestor: the National Front. On the occasion of this anniversary, the party, which became the National Rally in 2018, is organizing a symposium at the Palais Bourbon. A celebration in all discretion and marked by the absence of the emblematic co-founder of the FN: Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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Far from the slippages of her father, keeping the sulphurous memory of the National Front at a distance appears to be the strategy adopted by Marine Le Pen to normalize the party. However, “there is a certain filiation with the FN”, estimated Élodie Forêt, political journalist at France Inter, Wednesday October 5 in Le Talk de franceinfo on Twitch. For the journalist, “When you question MPs at the moment, including those who are quite recent in the party because several have joined in recent years, they do not deny the political heritage at all.”

What stands out a lot is actually the form it didn’t go well, the excesses, the excesses of language. They are uncomfortable more on the form than on the substance concerning what Jean-Marie Le Pen advocated.

Élodie Forêt, journalist

at franceinfo

Themes such as the fight against immigration or the national priority for the French, “it’s a legacy of the Front that they claim since it’s still in their program, they can’t say ‘we erase everything’continues the journalist. So obviously, if we talk to them about racial inequality, they don’t say it, but on preference, which has been the big topic for years, nothing is moving.