Two months after her return, Marion Maréchal campaigned tirelessly for Eric Zemmour. If she still believes a possible surprise despite polls at half mast, the niece of Marine Le Pen does not regret her departure from the National Rally, a party, according to her, with no future.
She is happy to be campaigning again. Returning from a trip to Belfort the day before, Marion Maréchal, five months pregnant, continues to travel without showing any sign of fatigue and appreciates the atmosphere of the meetings with the supporters of Eric Zemmour. Two months after deciding to return to politics to support the candidacy of the founder of “Reconquête! “, the niece of Marine Le Pen does not regret anything. “I haven’t had any contact with the leadership of the National Rally for months,” said the one who has not seen her aunt since the betrayal. The one who was deputy of Vaucluse between 2012 and 2017 before founding an institute of social, economic and political sciences returns to stay in politics, she warns. The scene is set, we will have to reckon with it in the years to come.
Without saying so and when she left the bosom of the RN, Marion Maréchal wants to write her story. A story that begins again with unfailing support for Eric Zemmour. The former deputy (32 years old) admits to being impressed by the career of the former journalist from Figaro (63 years old). ” He started from nothing. He created his own party, led a large-scale campaign and imposed himself, ”she lists admiringly. Despite the declining polls (10.5% in the rolling Ifop/Paris Match of the day), she still believes in a surprise and points out that Marine Le Pen’s score is still overestimated, by two to three points, by the sounders. Her aunt’s countryside, more solitary than ever, would miss hearing Marion Maréchal’s breath and enthusiasm. She would benefit, according to her, from her notoriety (greater than that of Zemmour), from her experience and from the war in Ukraine which would have mowed down the campaign of the candidate of “Reconquest! “. “He took the lightning for the others”, she regrets.
The RN, a desperate party, in debt and without activists
A little over sixty days after her return, she still feels “a little rusty” but this pure policy is already projected into the post-presidential period. Marion Maréchal is convinced – the qualification of Marine Le Pen in the second round or not – that the rest will not be written around the National Rally. A desperate party, according to her, after forty years of existence, eight lost presidential elections, 25 million debts (without assets) and a number of militants hardly higher. Opposite, she likes to underline, “Reconquest! ” is 115,000 inserts and already a nice nest egg. If she did not join Eric Zemmour’s party when he returned, she no longer rules out doing so. “I don’t forbid myself anything,” she confides. Marion Maréchal hopes that the RN will respond to the hand extended by Zemmour to Le Pen for the legislative elections in order to avoid an electoral Berezina. As for his future? She has not yet decided whether she will run again in Vaucluse or elsewhere. It’s not easy to campaign when you’re eight months pregnant…
Marion Maréchal knows, however, that this legislative election will be decisive for the future, in particular for political financing. Strategist, she confirms that she negotiated with Eric Zemmour to be able to invest her relatives (the number is not known) in the legislative elections. The ambitious Marion Maréchal also keeps an eye on his new and old playing partners (Guillaume Peltier, Nicolas Bay but also Jordan Bardella (remained at the RN and companion of his cousin Nolwenn Olivier). All generational rivals to the right of the right.