As the presidential election approaches, the youngest of the Le Pen family may well repent of having launched, two years ago, in the race for the Elysee, analyzes this journalist from the Swiss daily the Time.
The favorite felines of Marine Le Pen may have a chance to see her again much more often after the month of April 2022. This apparent joke is not one and it sums up the very particular situation in which it has been for several months the candidate of the National Rally within four months of the next French presidential election.
Already a candidate for the Élysée in 2012 (17.9% in the first round), then in 2017 (33.9% of the vote in the second round against Emmanuel Macron), the youngest daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen has never hid his desire to one day take care of his cats full time. In March 2021, the person concerned, [aujourd’hui] 53 years old, had even raised some concerns in her party by affirming that she wanted to devote herself as soon as possible to a “Cat breeding” in the South. A statement interpreted by those who know her as confirmation of her “Political fatigue”, five years after his painful televised debate of May 4, 2017 with the current French head of state.
2021, dose horribilis
Impossible, in fact, not to consider 2021 as the annus horribilis of the patroness of the National Rally, this party that she chose to rename in 2018, to erase the paternal heritage and protest of the National Front created in 1972 by her dad. First act of this difficult year: the impossible reconciliation with his young niece of 32 years, the former deputy Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, supporter of a liberal trend of identity popular among the young and urban fringe of the electorate of extreme law. Second act: the resounding failure of the RN to regional lists of June 2021, since his party did not win any region and failed in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, where its strategy of “Standardization” embodied by the former Sarkozy MEP Thierry Mariani stumbled against massive abstention and the loyalty of right-wing voters to outgoing President Renaud Muselier. Third act: the entry into the running, on November 30, of another very media candidate positioned on the far right, the former polemicist Éric Zemmour. Fourth and last act: the virtual victory, during the online congress of the Republicans, of the deputy Éric Ciotti, very close to the theses of the RN, whose failure in the second round against Valérie Pécresse has the consequence of placing him in the foreground. positions of his training, and therefore prevent his possible defection …
How, under these conditions, to raise the bar for the one who entered the presidential race first, in a statement released… on January 17, 2020?
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Richard Werly
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