The President of the National Rally Marine Le Pen will go Monday to the ceremony organized in tribute to Jacques Chirac. "I am the president of the first party of France It is perfectly natural that I go to the funeral of the former President of the Republic that was Jacques Chirac" said the president of the RN.
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Marine Le Pen hailed on Thursday on Twitter the memory of the former President of the Republic.
Despite all the differences that we could have with Jacques Chirac, he was a great lover of the Overseas and the President able to oppose the madness of the war in Iraq, reconnecting with the traditional position of balance and diplomacy of France. MLP
- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) September 26, 2019"Today, I do not want to retain, at least for the moment, the 'no' to the war in Iraq which was for me one of the last acts of sovereignty of a French president, and then this common point I have with Jacques Chirac who is a great love for overseas, "said Marine Le Pen on Saturday at the microphone of BFMTV.
An old rivalry
Between the extreme right and Jacques Chirac, the disenchantment is deep. His father Jean-Marie Le Pen had been the opponent of the former president in the second round of the 2002 presidential election. A tense face-to-face: the former president refused to debate with the candidate Front National during the between-two-turns. "I can not accept the trivialization of intolerance and hate," the candidate had said to justify his decision.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, replaced at the head Rassemblement nationale by his daughter in 2011, also reacted to the death of the former head of state: "Death, the enemy has the right to respect".