Tensions on the air at BFMTV. This Monday, May 6, Apolline de Malherbe received Marine Le Pen. Among the subjects discussed with her guest of the day, the journalist from the 24-hour news channel wanted to return to the exclusion of Jean-Marie Le Pen from the National Front (now National Rally, editor’s note). “Your father was anti-Semitic, surrounded by anti-Semites“, insisted the former colleague of Jean-Jacques Bourdin, before being interrupted by the president of the National Rally group in the National Assembly. “But listen, stop with my father…“, protested Marine Le Pen. Despite the resistance of her guest, Apolline de Malherbe continued her remarks: “You are one of the first to defend the Jews of France. Are you making it a fight today? Do you say to yourself: ‘I’m still ashamed of what my father was like’?“, asked the BFMTV journalist.
Marine Le Pen then expressed her “disagreements“on his father’s anti-Semitism:”But ma’am, I’ve been in politics for twenty years. Twenty years. I think the French can judge me on what I said and what I did“, confided the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, before adding: “I had such deep disagreements on this subject with my own father that I had to exclude him from the movement.“, she then recalled. A decision “complicated“to be taken, particularly in terms of”emotional” : “It was complicated, but I did it. I did it because we had too deep differences on these subjects“, estimated the one who is also an MP.
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Marine Le Pen pushes the song: her cover of Barbara provokes reactions
On May 1, a large-scale meeting of the National Rally was held in Perpignan, in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Just like Louis Aliot and Jordan Bardella, Marine Le Pen took the stage during this big meeting and decided to defend the RN campaign slogan, “France is coming back”, using the famous title of the late Barbara, “Tell me, when will you come back ?“
Behind her desk and with the utmost seriousness, the 55-year-old politician sang the moving refrain of this famous song: “Tell me, when will you come back ? Say, at least you know that? That all the time that passes can hardly be made up for. May all the time lost no longer be made up for.“A sequence that Marine Le Pen relayed on her Instagram account and which did not fail to make Internet users react.”Barbara must be turning in her grave“, wrote one of them, scathingly. “Here it is, our singer for the opening of the Olympics“, quipped another. “Is that really her singing? It is not bad at all ! Well done“, commented a last one with enthusiasm.
Photo credits: BFMTV screenshot