“I will never forgive myself” for her exclusion from the FN, reveals Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen explained that she will “never forgive” herself for the decision to exclude his father Jean-Marie Le Pen from the National Front (FN) in 2015, in an interview published Sunday evening on the website of the JDD.

“I will never forgive myself for this decision, because I know that it caused him immense pain,” explained the one who succeeded him at the head of the far-right party in 2011.

“One of the most difficult of my life”

Four years after the appointment of Marine Le Pen at the head of the FN (renamed National Rally in 2018), the finalist in the 2002 presidential election estimated that “the German Occupation had not been particularly inhumane”, and promised the singer Patrick Bruel a “batch”.

His daughter, president of the RN, then decided to exclude him from the party, by withdrawing his title of “honorary president”. “Making this decision was one of the most difficult of my life”recognized the triple unsuccessful candidate for the Elysée with the JDD.

And until the end of my life, I will always ask myself the question: “Could I have done differently?”

Jean-Marie Le Pen “locked himself in his provocations”

Regarding the convictions of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who notably referred the Shoah to “a detail” of History, the boss of the RN deputies in the National Assembly believes that “it is a little unfair to judge him only in the light of these controversies.

” On 80 years (of political life)unless you are a sort of Sarkozy or socialist ectoplasm, it is inevitable to have subjects which give rise to controversies”, she notes, considering however that it is “unfortunate” that Jean-Marie Le Pen “locked himself into his provocations”.

The problem was, he was starting again.

“At the time, I didn’t believe he was dead”

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen was announced on Tuesday in a press release signed “Family Le Pen”. Gold, Marine Le Pen, who was on a plane who brought her back from Mayotte to mainland France, did not learn about it that afterthanks to a stopover in Nairobi.

“At the time, I didn’t believe it. Then, out of conscience, knowing that he had very fragile health, I called my sister to find out what was going on,” says the Pas-de-Calais MP.

She taught me that.

Marine Le Pen further indicates that she “did not think” that the political class was “capable” of paying tribute to her father, saying she was “pleasantly surprised”.

But, regarding Emmanuel Macron’s press release, according to which “History will judge” Jean-Marie Le Penthe one who lost twice in the second round of the presidential election predicts that the “judgment of History” will be much more severe for the Head of State and that he will “remember that he has nothing seen and, above all, nothing done.”

Source: © 2025 AFP

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