Jean-Marie Le Pen at home in 2019. -

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Jean-Marie Le Pen wants his daughter Marine Le Pen, candidate for the third time at the Elysee Palace, to reach "the third round" in 2022, that is to say that she wins the presidential election.

“I want Marine Le Pen to be in the second round and even, if I may say so, in the third.

She or a candidate who represents the national and popular right for which I fought for 50 years, ”said in an interview with AFP the co-founder of the National Front, now National Rally, from his offices in Montretout in Saint -Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine).

"Exceptional qualities"

He thinks the RN president has a chance.

"I am not saying that she has no chance (of winning), on the contrary".

"But it all depends on the (other) candidates, whether there are many, or few" and "events", "on the economic, social, political and even medical situation," notes the former far-right leader, aged 92 years old.

He praises the "remarkable qualities" of his granddaughter Marion Maréchal, "the intelligence, the courage, the culture, the will", but does not forget the "exceptional qualities" of his daughter, who now occupies "a post. prominent in French politics ”.

An "abundance" of candidates would help him, according to him

He predicted in the presidential election an "abundance" of candidates, which "rather favors candidates whose names are already well known, such as that of Marine Le Pen".

He bet that "these are the personalities who will mark the ballot", due to an "individualization of politics", regretting that all the parties, including the RN, have "gradually lost their importance, their strength" .

Jean-Marie Le Pen “does not necessarily see Emmanuel Macron candidate” but he thinks that on the right, the candidates will be “legion” and that the Republicans party can “explode”.

The left, he believes it is "seriously injured", because "in politics we are never dead".

"No", the former president of the FN does not recognize himself in the party chaired by his daughter, who excluded him in 2015 after his slippage on the Shoah, and whose name change was for him "a rupture ".

But "it is probably the political formation which is closest to what I think," he said, welcoming the fact that the party he chaired for almost 40 years "has come closer to the traditional line of the FN. “Neither right nor left, since the departure in 2017 of the former number two Florian Philippot.

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