This Thursday, April 11, Marion Maréchal was on the set of the show Tomorrow Europe broadcast on franceinfo. Questioned by journalist Jérôme Chapuis, the politician returned to her grandfather’s political legacy. “ Are you taking on the entire legacy of Jean-Marie Le Pen? » he asked. “ I have already expressed myself five hundred times on this question “, the politician began by responding before continuing: “ I would like to come back to it, but I joined the National Front when I was a teenager and I have no regrets. » According to her, her grandfather’s political party at the time was “ the only party that was a whistleblower on everything we are experiencing today “.
Marion Maréchal considers Jean-Marie Le Pen as “ a precursor on the question of Islamization, on the question of mass immigration “. “ And you take responsibility for everything? » journalist Salhia Brakhlia then cut her off. Marion Maréchal did not respond directly in the negative, but tried to attenuate her comments. “ I had disagreements with him on several occasions, and I expressed them publicly, bluntly. “, she claimed before adding: “ Including when he was still in politics and he still had the capacity to respond. » Thus, the 34-year-old woman thinks that “ there was never any ambiguity ” on this point.
Marion Maréchal changes her name
“ They call you Marion Maréchal or Marion Maréchal Le Pen, doesn’t that bother you today? » asked journalist Benjamin Sportouch. “It never bothered me», replied Marion Maréchal. Eric Zemmour’s right-hand man left aside his second surname, Le Pen. “I don’t want this to be seen as shame on my part. », began to explain Marine Le Pen’s niece. Before continuing: “It’s just that when I entered politics at 22, it was my usual name on my identity card, so I took this surname which had a strong symbolic value politically, undeniably.» But when she “quits» politics in 2017, she chose to return to her civil name: Marion Maréchal. However, water has flowed under the bridge since then, and she has returned to politics. “I wasn’t going to change it afterwards, because I found it complicated for people. I made it simple“, she said.
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