What could be better for Éric Zemmour's camp, on this International Women's Rights Day, than to send on a television set the one whose recent rallying - staged in Toulon (Var) last Sunday - is as political as symbolic: Marion Maréchal, niece of her main nationalist competitor.
Guest of BFMTV on Tuesday evening, the director of ISSEP reconsidered her choice to definitively leave the family ship to go to that of Reconquest.
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“Éric Zemmour has many cards in hand that Marine Le Pen does not have. Cards in political hands”
, analysis to start with the one that is back on the front of the stage.
Which justifies its decision by ideological and not personal reasons, as if to better deflate the trials of “treason”, fed by Marine Le Pen against him.
To lessen these political and personal taunts, the former deputy for Vaucluse motivates her support for three reasons: Éric Zemmour would first have
"coherence and a line which is the right one"
, then
"an attitude and a desire to unite and 'union of the rights
', and finally a
“ability to greatly weaken the sanitary cordon (...).
that the National Rally had failed to obtain.
»
"Éric Zemmour will be in the second round despite appearances", predicts Marion Maréchal
When she retired from political life in 2017, Marion Maréchal considered that the caciques of the FN became "
despite
(them)
, the useful idiots of the maintenance of the system.
" The
"representatives"
of the latter were, according to her, "
very happy to have us in front because mechanically, with the second round
", "
the thing was locked and the political landscape never moved
"
,
points out the former parliamentarian of the FN.
“
With Éric Zemmour, I have the impression that a door is opening.
“Despite polls at half mast for a few days – the latest Ifop study for Paris Match, Sud Radio and LCI published Tuesday evening gives the candidate of Reconquest!
at 12.5% and Marine Le Pen at 18.5% - the 32-year-old thinks that there is an
"accumulation of elements which
(him)
gives the conviction that Éric
(Zemmour)
will be in the second round in despite appearances."
The opportunity to mock the reign of his aunt at the head of the nationalist party.
“She imposed her line and her strategy against the current to which I belonged without her taking into account our family relationship at the time
,” she retorts.
Referring to the
"most difficult decision of her life",
Marion Maréchal explains ironically that at her age, "
given the importance and seriousness of this choice and its consequences on a personal and political level,
(her)
motivation is not not just to annoy
“auntie”.
Tuesday morning, Marine Le Pen had suggested on RMC that her niece perhaps simply wanted to
“hurt”
her on an emotional level, and not at all political.
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If she wishes to return
"sustainably"
, Marion Maréchal has not indicated whether she will indeed be a candidate in the legislative elections.
Pregnant, the granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen is
"not sure of being able to carry out this electoral fight effectively".
Although "
if (she) has the chance and the opportunity, (she) would like to be able to do it
".
In confidences that she had granted to
Figaro
at the end of January, Marion Maréchal specified that she hesitated between a parachuting in Morbihan and her former constituency in Vaucluse, territory where she had been elected at 22 years old in 2012.
