The vice-president of “Reconquest!” returned, Wednesday, April 20 on BFM, to the debate between the two rounds. In addition to criticism of the outgoing president, she called on the right to come together.
Marion Maréchal said she believed in her aunt’s chances of winning: “Yes she can still win, in any case I hope so, that’s why I called to vote for her because against Emmanuel Macron there is no ambiguity. There will be a desire for openness and real gathering for all voters inclined to vote for her. She however regretted that this second round “is played around the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.”
Unlike her failed debate in 2017, for the vice-president of “Reconquête!”, Marine Le Pen “learned from her mistakes, undeniably, so I do not expect there to be a spectacular gap at all .” She added that she “hopes that she will manage to show the duplicity in Emmanuel Macron’s record between his words, what he promises, what has really been put in place, the reversals on ecology, the retreats or with the communalized electorate of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Marion Maréchal nevertheless highlighted her differences with the boss of the RN: “There are things with which I do not agree. Whether on the economic, European, civilizational approach too. This is why I joined Éric Zemmour because I defended these ideas within the National Front before leaving it.
As for the future of Éric Zemmour’s party, she said she sees in it “a young movement full of the future, which has laid solid foundations” to which she “wants to contribute so that it becomes the compass of the right and launch promising young executives into political life.”
In order to counter LREM in the legislative elections if Emmanuel Macron is elected, the former deputy from Vaucluse explained that her party “launched[e] a call for a grand coalition of the rights.” She also explained that it is necessary “to raise awareness at the Rassemblement National, Debout La France [et aux] elected LR who do not want an alliance with Emmanuel Macron, that we can win a relative majority, if not absolute. We have counted on 379 second rounds with common candidates.
“There are contacts between Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour” because “they have known each other for a long time.”
This alliance would make it possible to “impose cohabitation” according to Marion Maréchal, who declared: “We are the only camp, potentially, which would leave divided. Jean-Luc Mélenchon today calls on the French to elect him Prime Minister, to obtain a coalition with the ecologists, the communists and the NPA. She also added that “there are contacts between Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour” because “they have known each other for a long time.”
The vice-president said she regretted that Marine Le Pen “closed[e] the door to people like us and open it[e] to personalities like Arnaud Montebourg, a leftist who has quite strong pro-immigration positions and who called for Emmanuel Macron to vote a few days ago […] We call on the candidates and elected LRs who do not want to be taken hostage by the Macronist alliance, contacts will be made with them.
On the Mélenchon vote, Marion Maréchal said she was worried about a communitarian vote: “I am talking about a communitarian vote because when 69% of French people share a confession and vote for a candidate, it reveals a mechanism that is not natural.”