A distant great-grandnephew of Napoleon I, Joachim Murat, will be a candidate in the European elections on a sovereignist list, he announced Friday in a press release to AFP. Aged 50, Joachim Murat presents himself as a descendant of the Marshal of the Empire and King of Naples Joachim Murat (1767-1815), who was the brother-in-law of Napoleon I through his marriage to his sister Caroline Bonaparte.
“Passionate about France”
He will appear in third position on the
“We the People”
list , led by Georges Kuzmanovic, a former spokesperson for Jean-Luc Mélenchon who left La France insoumise in 2018 to found his movement,
“République Souveraine”
. According to Murat, this list will also include Philippe Grégoire, a breeder president of
“SAMU social agricole”
, an association which defends farmers in difficulty, and the writer Olivier Delorme.
Former paratrooper officer, Joachim Murat presents himself as
“a enthusiast of France and its social model which no longer supports its destruction planned by the supporters of federalist Europe”
. For him,
“it is time to restore power to nations and people, in the face of an oppressive European bureaucracy and a political elite that has betrayed the fundamental principles of democracy, sovereignty and freedom”
.