The granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, ex-deputy (FN) of Vaucluse, has deconfined her public speaking, and as often, she succeeds in making waves. In a video posted on Facebook Wednesday, June 10 in the evening, she gave a “rant” and reacted to rallies against racism and police violence in France, after the death of George Floyd, an African-American killed during his arrest by the Minneapolis police.
According to Marion Maréchal, the case acts like a "steamroller" in France. “I don't have to apologize as a white woman and as a Frenchwoman for the death of an African-American. I do not have to apologize for the death of an offender, Adama Traoré, "said Marion Maréchal, denouncing the" attempted subversion of the spirits "on the part of" militant groups, left, so-called anti-racist, indigenous " An outcry ... even in the ranks of his former party of the RN, led by his aunt Marine Le Pen.
My bloodshed on the Floyd and Traoré affair. Like many French people, I refuse to put “one knee on the ground” and let my country become the playing field for “anti-racists”. The rest here ➡️https: //t.co/k35hpKdI2e pic.twitter.com/gLz7O6ZAGr
- Marion Maréchal (@MarionMarechal) June 10, 2020The boss of the National Rally has also reacted, accusing her niece of "falling into a double trap" by using "racial" rhetoric to criticize her opponents. "We must stay on a republican level, this is what makes our country special," confided the member for Pas-de-Calais to BFM. Me, I prefer to position myself in the defense of our Constitution which refuses any basis of communitarianism ”. And to assert "a difference of approach on this subject", without denying Marion Maréchal "the right to express an opinion". Atmosphere.
"She became a commentator"
If Marion Maréchal, now "simple" director of the ISSEP, the small school she founded in Lyon (Rhône), denies eyeing the presidential election of 2022, - she repeated on Thursday June 11 that she would not be a candidate for the next presidential, or regional elections in 2021 - her name keeps coming back as that of a possible alternative candidate to that of Marine Le Pen, dryly beaten in the second round of that of 2017. Officially, Marion Maréchal, 30, no longer does politics. Without however refraining from intervening in the debate. "It clearly formulates things that have not been said in the debate so far," defends Jacques de Guillebon, co-founder of the magazine L'Incorrect and close to the former member of the Vaucluse. The interested party would not have premeditated her speech, calling herself her reaction "epidermic" even if "she is happy with the noise it makes ...", slips Guillebon.
“The speech of the RN is not always understandable on these subjects, they must spare the goat and the cabbage. Marion has this freedom, ”slips a relative of Maréchal. Understand: basically, they think the same thing. “She makes observations but offers nothing. She no longer plays politics, but still a little. She became a commentator, ”he says.
Marion Maréchal, who should tour the news channels continuously by the weekend, continues in any case to send postcards and maintain its networks. A second edition of the “convention of the right” - its political comeback - should be organized this year. It would not take place in September like last year, but "later in the year".