Tuesday evening, on BFMTV, Marine Le Pen did not pretend not to believe it and said she was "convinced" that her niece Marion Maréchal would join Éric Zemmour.
Suffice to say that the question was no longer whether the former MP was going to support the Reconquest candidate, but when and where.
Answer: Sunday March 6 at a meeting in Toulon.
Several sources at Zemmour confirm this Thursday, March 4 this information from Figaro.
The suspense had already been largely blunted after the confidences of Marion Maréchal to the Parisian on January 27th.
She said in particular that she allowed herself a month before announcing a decision to join the Zemmour camp or not.
According to our information, Marion Maréchal will speak this Sunday before Éric Zemmour.
Fiercely attached to her freedom of speech and vaccinated against party discipline, which she experienced badly at the FN, she should not take up a post within Reconquête, neither vice-president nor spokesperson, and keep a free electron status, like Philippe de Villiers.
“But she will be less in the shadows than him and will do more media,” slips a campaign executive.
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Before confirming her participation in the campaign, Marion Maréchal negotiated to have the nomination of 80 of her relatives in the legislative elections.
An important point for the one who has the feeling of having seen her sensitivity being ostracized within the FN, then the RN, for years.
She herself wants to commit to the legislative elections.
The constituency that holds the rope to date is the third constituency of Vaucluse for which she has already been a deputy from 2012 to 2017. With the advantage of immense local notoriety.
The term of her pregnancy (she is pregnant) coincides with the second round of the legislative...
Internally, some are also pleading for her to be the future head of the Reconquest list for the 2024 Europeans. being returned to the inter-rounds of the presidential election.
"It was planned before the war but it's good"
While Éric Zemmour is experiencing a bad period in the polls and the war in Ukraine is complicating his campaign, by the very admission of his teams, the arrival of Marion Maréchal, who is very popular, is timely.
"It was planned before the war but that's good," admits his team.
“It will end up shaking the RN where there are already not many activists in the feds.
In the LR electorate, she reassures the ciottist branch.
And since she was no longer in politics and she is young, she also addresses abstentionists, ”we cross our fingers.
At the RN, we minimize this arrival.
"It's not a surprise, she has already not voted for us in the Europeans but for Bellamy", believes a senior RN leader who predicts: "It will have no impact.
People don't like personal and family betrayal.
“On the sidelines of her wishes to the press on January 26, Marine Le Pen was ironic about this possible rallying: “At Zemmour, they think it's the Holy Grail”.
The RN candidate and aunt of Marion Maréchal saw it as a form of "magical thinking".
But even in the young woman's entourage, some were disappointed with her choice to confide to the Parisian at the end of January that "politics has been tickling
[la]
for a year ".
“The sequence was catastrophic: it was
hello, I exist
.
Who imagines General de Gaulle saying that?
Or even Joan of Arc?
asked one of his friends a few days ago.
