Marion Maréchal-Le Pen to Withdraw from Politics?

There are reports surfacing that Marion Maréchal-Le Pen has sent a two page letter announcing her withdrawal from politics to the editor of Le Dauphiné libéré, a provincial daily French newspaper published in Grenoble and known for its emphasis on local news and events.

Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, the niece of Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen and one of the far-right party’s only two MPs, is apparently abandoning politics after her aunt’s heavy defeat to centrist Emmanuel Macron in Sunday’s French presidential run-off.

While Marine Le Pen was defeated in the recent presidential elections, she came much too close for comfort where the French political establishment are concerned, and with the legislative elections next month looking set to massively increase FN representation in the National Assembly, I couldn’t help wondering over the last few days what steps would be taken to disrupt and weaken the FN before the party becomes too strong. I am not surprise today therefore to read reports of a deepening rift within the Le Pen family that does not auger well for the party’s future.

There has for some time now been a deep rift between Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, a rift which appears to be the result of moves made by Marine to liberalise the party in an effort to broaden its electoral appeal and make it more acceptable to ethnic minority groups, and most especially, the Jewish community in France.

Marine has in recent years taken steps to give the FN a more multiracial make up and in a number of interviews with journalists from Jewish publications, she has attempted to reassure French Jews that they have nothing to fear from the FN. Furthermore, she was also seen recently laying a wreath on a Holocaust memorial and one wonders why Marine should need to go to such lengths in order to reassure French Jews as her current partner Louis Aliot, is a man of partly Algerian Jewish descent.

Marine has also taken as her chief adviser Florian Philippot, a man who was recently exposed as a homosexual. He and Louis Aliot appear to have played an active role in driving out of the FN any members voicing homophobic, antisemitic or otherwise racist comments, and in encouraging Marine to expel her father from the party over what appear to be Jean-Marie’s remarkably tame comments about the Holocaust — his statements that the WWII concentration camp gas chambers were a “detail of history”.

Marion Maréchal-Le Pen is closer to her grandfather and is far more socially conservative than her aunt and has clashed with Marine over a number of policy issues. Marion is viewed by some in the party as a future leader.

Following her defeat in the presidential elections, Marine Le Pen’s plans to “profoundly transform” and possible rename the FN have raised fears that possible future changes to the party’s policy platform will shift the party towards and increasingly liberal position, something that Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, her grandfather and many traditionally minded members are opposed to.

In the letter to Le Dauphiné libéré, which is to be published in full tomorrow, Marion apparently states she will not be standing for re-election in next month’s general election.

She has reportedly written, “You know my story; you know I’ve been in this political world all my life. At 27, it is time for me to leave it for a while. I am not giving up the political fight forever. I cannot remain indifferent to the suffering of my compatriots.”

Jean-Marie Le Pen said on Tuesday he was deeply disappointed with his granddaughter’s decision.

“This will create a huge disappointment … Marion represented a hope for the future for many FN voters and activists,” Le Pen senior told Le Figaro, adding that if there was no good explanation, the move amounted to “a desertion”.

The FN therefore appears to be riven by political differences that are exacerbated by the presence of Jews and homosexuals in key positions close to Marine Le Pen – people who feel it more important to neutralise any homophobia or antisemitism within the party, than to retain the confidence of people who were undoubtedly the party’s core supporters during its infancy and the early years of struggle to get it established. There is clearly a lesson here for nationalist groups and nationalist political parties throughout the world.

By Max Musson © 2017

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