If he supports Marine Le Pen for the presidential election, the former honorary president of the FN is very harsh on the behavior of his daughter at the head of his party.
Blow hot and cold. 63 days before the presidential election, Jean-Marie Le Pen has made his choice. It will be his daughter. And this, despite the hesitations he may have had with regard to Éric Zemmour when he burst onto the political scene in the fall. In an interview at JDD, the Menhir begins by praising the qualities of Marine Le Pen, who is appearing for the third time in front of the French. “She has progressed a lot, worked. She is capable of debating. The image it projects is more positive“, he considers.
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If Jean-Marie Le Pen recognizes the qualities of the former boss of the RN, he does not intend to hold back his blows. A few years after being kicked out of the flame party for saying in April 2015 that the gas chambers were “a detailof World War II history, the former “Devil of the Republic” isn’t always complimentary about his daughter.
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“She doesn’t listen to anyone. I am much more flexible than her. She dismissed many activists, friends of Marion. It is a spreader, more effective in ejection than in recruitment”, he says to the one who has worn the colors of his party since 2012. A few days ago, it was Marine Le Pen who castigated the behavior of his father to better smash his main competitor in an interview with Causeur: “Zemmour reproduces precisely the errors of Jean-Marie Le Pen who sometimes made provocations for the pleasure of provoking, not to advance an idea“.
“Perhaps he is doing Marine a favor”, hopes Jean-Marie Le Pen
The day after a major convention where Marine Le Pen launched her presidential campaign, revealing a part of intimacy at the end of her speech, the patriarch of the Le Pen clan finds that the presence of the Reconquest candidate is ultimately useful for the RN. “Zemmour, I like him very much. He puts my ideas back into the campaign. It is he who is being attacked, he is the man of the extreme right. Maybe he’s doing Marine a favor.” he points.
While Marion Maréchal gives herself time to think before choosing between the two applicants, Jean-Marie Le Pen does not understand her behavior. “He was a flawless Navy. It was I who sent her to Carpentras for the 2012 legislative elections, to wash away the affront of having been accused by the left of being the inspirers and why not the authors of the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in May 1990. , he explains.
After the confidences of his granddaughter at Figaro , where she indicated that she wanted to return to politics, the former boss of the National Front saw red: “What took her to announce her desire to return to politics, when she is in another life project. She is married, expecting a child in June. How could she, under these conditions, be a candidate for the legislative elections?
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