In an interview, Marine Le Pen took some time to discuss the tensions that pushed her to exclude her father from her political party.
Marine Le Pen had until then only reacted publicly to the death of her father with a short message on a very pleasant interview of a media that has become very conservative and won over to the discourse of the nationalist right. In this long interview, first devoted to the situation in Mayotte, where Marine Le Pen spent several days at the beginning of January, the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen is questioned about the relationship she had with her father.
The JDD, unsurprisingly, does not talk about Jean-Marie Le Pen’s convictions for anti-Semitism or his past as a torturer in Algeria. The newspaper prefers to get Marine Le Pen to confide in the nature of their personal relationships and what the man will have brought to French politics. “Marie-Caroline, Yann and I had an infinite love for my father, and I believe he had an equally immense love for us. In a family, there are always arguments, betrayals, reconciliations… is normal”, slips the RN deputy for Pas-de-Calais. “In reality, we are a normal family. A normal family that plays politics, which inevitably increases the opportunities to argue. However, we are also proof of what makes a family magical. Despite everything , we always loved each other, I know he was always proud of us,” she adds in the columns of the media.
The boss of the French far right assures that her father, “with age, gradually leaving the political scene”, has “refocused on what was really important. And for him, whatever anyone says, what mattered was his wife and it was us. The rest no longer mattered.
The interview is still an opportunity for Marine Le Pen to speak more openly about the political conflict which led her to remove him from the National Front and the legal fight she led so that he was no longer president. of honor of his political party. “What is unfortunate is that he got caught up in these provocations. In reality, his rebellious and provocative side ended up taking over everything else,” she regrets, considering that the main obstacle political for her was her stubbornness in repeating her statements that were “controversial” to her – but illegal and racist, according to French law. “The problem was that he was starting again. And that’s where, at one point, I said stop. Because it was no longer possible. You can’t give hope to people, promising them a better future, while requiring them to live this political fight with a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.
Marine Le Pen adds about their biggest personal and political conflict: “Making this decision was one of the most difficult of my life. And until the end of my life, I will always ask myself the question: is- What could I have done differently? This is the big question that haunts me. Could I have avoided this? […] I will never forgive myself. He no longer had the right to put him in danger through provocation, pride or whatever. […] But I will never forgive myself for this decision, because I know it caused him immense pain.”