Marine Le Pen blames the blow, after the declarations of her niece Marion Maréchal, who leans for Eric Zemmour for the next presidential election without rallying him at this stage.
Thunderbolt for the RN presidential candidate. After Gilbert Collard and Jérôme Rivière who recently joined far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour in the race for the Elysée, the leader of the National Rally has just been let go by her own niece Marion Maréchal. “I’m thinking, no decision has been made”, but “if I support Éric (Zemmour, Editor’s note), it’s not just to hang around and say hello”, said the former MP to the “Parisien”. who finds that the former columnist for Le Figaro and CNews “has made a lot of progress in posture, tone, seriousness”.
Marine Le Pen fell from the clouds, explains her entourage to Paris Match underlining the family fracture. “There are betrayals that hurt more than others,” we are told from the same source. On Cnews on Friday morning, she had already described the moment as “brutal”, “violent”, “difficult”.
“It was his daddy”
The relationship between Marine Le Pen and her niece Marion is however almost filial. “It was his dad”, abounds his entourage. “I saw her born, I took her in my arms, and I raised her for two years with my sister (Yann, editor’s note) with whom I was living at the time”, recalled the frontist leader in September 2020 on the antenna of BFM TV. During this return to school 2020, Marion Maréchal had already given a warning shot saying that Marine Le Pen “cannot win the presidential election alone”. The former deputy of Vaucluse also indicated that she did not intend to present herself, nor to “put herself at the service of a candidate”.
Marine Le Pen confided to keep from time to time the daughter of Marion Maréchal, Olympe, born of her relationship with Matthieu Decosse. The little one, born in 2014, shares a love of cats with her great-aunt, who is now a cat breeder.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen summons them
Between the two women, the bridges now seem to be cut. They have not seen each other since the summer of 2021, we are told. Marion Maréchal, who is expecting her second child, married Italian MEP Vincenzo Sofo, one of the League’s influential theoreticians, on September 11, the day her aunt returned to politics.
This weekend, Marine Le Pen may have news from the family, she will go to the Madrid-Defend Europe Summit, an event in which Vincenzo Sofo, close to Matteo Savilni, also participates.
Faced with this family heartbreak, Jean-Marie Le Pen spoke on Friday morning, indicating via a simple tweet that he wishes to “talk in the coming days” with his daughter and granddaughter. “I will express my thoughts later when I deem it useful for the clarity of the presidential and legislative debates to come”.
I would like to speak in the next few days with @MLP_official and @MarionMarechal. I will express my thoughts later when I deem it useful for the clarity of the presidential and legislative debates to come.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen (@lepenjm) January 28, 2022
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