Vice-president of the RN, Louis Aliot praises Jean-Marie Le Pen’s ability to impose the themes of his far-right party in the public debate. “I think that without him French politics today would be totally blind, deaf,” he said on TF1.
Now deceased, is Jean-Marie Le Pen becoming less embarrassing for the National Rally? Vice-president of the far-right party, Louis Aliot says he is in favor of a “tribute” this Wednesday, January 8 on TF1, the day after the death of the co-founder of the National Front, who became RN in 2018.
This position is in line with the unanimous respect of the Lepenists since the death of “Mehnir”, which contrasts with their attitude and their declarations of recent years. For example, the five-time presidential candidate was not invited to the party’s fiftieth anniversary in 2022.
“Shares of light” and “shade”
“We still owe him (this tribute), in any case it’s my opinion,” judges Louis Aliot, emphasizing the role of the latter in imposing the themes of the far-right formation: “I think that without him the French politics would today be totally blind and deaf, which is what it was for a long time.”
Faced with the patriarch’s career, marked by multiple condemnations and racist outbursts, the mayor of Perpignan minimizes: “in politicians, there are parts of light, parts of criticism, of shadow”.
The ex-companion of Marine Le Pen, who joined the FN in 1990, prefers to present the father as “a great patriot, ward of the nation, volunteer in Indochina (…) who resigned from his post as deputy to go fight in Algeria.”
Like her, he learned of this death from journalists during a stopover during the journey to bring them back to mainland France after a trip to Mayotte.
Marine Le Pen, whose relations with her father had warmed up, after years of tensions marked by the latter’s exclusion from the FN in 2015, paid tribute to him on he loves are waiting for him up there. Many people who love him are mourning him down here.
