Marion Maréchal, Éric Zemmour's new war prize?

Marine Le Pen's niece should appear alongside the Reconquest candidate!

Sunday at the Toulon meeting, told AFP three sources close to the far-right candidate on Wednesday March 2.

"It's a real turning point, because his imminent support will symbolize and announce the success of the union of the rights after forty years of cordon sanitaire", claimed a close friend of Éric Zemmour, confirming information from Figaro and L' Opinion. 

The candidate himself has not confirmed the rallying of Marion Maréchal, a new episode in the fratricidal war within the far right.

"I can tell you that I wish it, I would welcome her with open arms, because she is a long-time friend, a remarkable woman", he underlined on CNews, before castigating "Marine Le Pen candidate of the great renunciation, of the great betrayal of her ideas". 

"She will be in Toulon," said another member of Reconquête!, while Marion Maréchal, to AFP, neither denied nor confirmed her arrival.

The rally "is in the process of being done", added a third party executive. 

The decision has been made for several weeks.

The time has come to take it on.

Five years after leaving political life, Marion Maréchal is preparing this weekend to dive back into it.

Behind the scenes of a rally to read in @Le_Figaro ⤵️ https://t.co/Yr2dwflMjL

— Charles Sapin (@csapin) March 2, 2022

"It plunges me into an abyss of perplexity politically" 

Marine Le Pen said she was "convinced" on Tuesday that her niece Marion Maréchal was going to join Éric Zemmour's campaign.

"It saddens me personally and it plunges me into an abyss of perplexity politically", because "I am the only one who can win against Emmanuel Macron", said Marine Le Pen, who is ahead of her competitor in the polls. 

More conservative than Marine Le Pen on societal issues and more liberal in economics, Marion Maréchal, former FN deputy (now RN), told Le Figaro in January "leaning towards Éric Zemmour" despite "a family subject" with his aunt. 

Four MEPs, including a leading member of the RN, Nicolas Bay, as well as the sole senator of the party Stéphane Ravier, both ideologically close to Marion Maréchal, have joined the campaign of the candidate Reconquête! in recent weeks. 

With AFP

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