Asked about Europe 1 to find out if Ms. Le Pen can be elected president, Marion Maréchal replied: "I don't know. I sincerely believe that Reconquest! can transform political life in the medium and long term".

"I don't know if Marine Le Pen can win if I stick to the polls - since now obviously that's what determines the election," she added ironically.

"There seems to be a chance. For that, you have to have conditions for gathering between two rounds. It can't only pass through a dialogue with the sovereignist popular left, it must also pass through allies , and coalitions and alliances" on the right, she developed.

"The ball is in his court and being content with forming a unity government with left-wing people like Arnaud Montebourg seems to me to be a totally unrealizable fantasy: these people will never come," she insisted.

Without quoting the name of the former socialist minister, Marine Le Pen had indicated Thursday that she did not exclude, if she were elected, the participation in a government of "national unity" of people from "the Chevènementist left , that is to say of a sovereignist left".

"Reconquest! becomes this morning the only major right-wing party, which will rebuild the French right around Eric Zemmour", pleaded on France 2 Guillaume Peltier, spokesperson for Mr. Zemmour who called on his voters to vote on Sunday evening. for Marine Le Pen in the second round, despite their "disagreements".

Results of the first round Sylvie HUSSON AFP

Asked about France Inter to find out if the RN would reach out to the Reconquest candidate!

for the legislative elections, party president Jordan Bardella replied in the negative: "We will first reach out to all French people in the presidential election, but we are not in the alliance of apparatuses , we are not in the scheme”, he affirmed.

"The time for the legislative elections will come. There are obviously sincere patriots at Eric Zemmour who will join us, to whom we are reaching out (...) but not only. Patriots there are on the right, there are left," he said.

Jordan Bardella (RN) during a debate organized by the magazine "Valeurs Actuelles, March 22, 2022 in Paris Alain JOCARD AFP / Archives

Asked also to know if she would appear in the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, Marion Maréchal, six months pregnant, indicated that she was "not sure of being able to go there for personal reasons", but that she will be a "stakeholder".

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