The founding president of the National Front has taken a stand to ease internal tensions. Questioned by CNEWS, Jean-Marie Le Pen did not hide his surprise this Monday, January 31, listening to the words of his granddaughter, Marion Maréchal, indicating that she would not vote for her aunt in the next presidential election. .
In response to the controversy arising from the intervention of Marion Maréchal on Thursday, indicating that she would not support Marine Le Pen in her candidacy for the presidential election, Jean-Marie Le Pen expressed his astonishment, while calling for an appeasement between the two women.
“It would be a disappointment, it would be a surprise honestly. Marion (Marshal) had said she was retiring from politics. She has all sorts of reasons to take care of her personal affairs since she is both getting married and she is expecting a child… Suddenly, she intervenes in the campaign in an equivocal attitude since she does not say that she is voting for Zemmour, she says she will not vote for Marine (Le Pen)”, analyzed Jean-Marie Le Pen in an interview with CNEWS on Monday.
“I’m leaning towards Eric Zemmour”
Originally, Marion Maréchal had confided Thursday that she was thinking of supporting the candidate of Reconquest!, excluding by default any support for her aunt. “Coherence, vision, strategy make me lean towards Eric Zemmour. For sure. But there is a family subject (…) I am thinking, no decision has been made but if I support Éric (Zemmour), it is not just to pass a head and say hello”, had indicated the former French deputy in an interview with Le Parisien.
The next day, the head of the list of the National Rally had regretted the position of his niece. “If I tell you that it does not affect me, I think that nobody would believe me. It’s brutal, it’s violent, it’s difficult for me”, explained Marine Le Pen on CNEWS on Friday January 28.