Marine Le Pen explained that she will “never forgive” herself for the decision to exclude her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, from the National Front (ex-RN) in 2015, in an interview published Sunday evening on the JDD website.
“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.
Four years later, the finalist in the 2022 presidential election estimated that “the German Occupation had not been particularly inhumane”, and promised singer Patrick Bruel a “batch”: Marine Le Pen, president of the RN, then decided to exclude him from the party, by removing his title of “honorary president”.
“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: + could I have done differently? +”, argues the triple unsuccessful candidate for the Elysée.
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 Assembly believes that “it is a little unfair to judge him solely on in the light of these controversies.
“Over 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 “got caught up in these provocations”.
“The problem is that he started again,” she laments again.
The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen was announced to AFP on Tuesday in a press release signed “Le Pen Family”. But Marine Le Pen, who was on a plane bringing her back from Mayotte to mainland France, only learned about it afterwards, during 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. And it was her who taught it to me”, says the member of parliament for Pas-de-Calais.
Marine Le Pen still 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 whom “History will judge” Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 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 will “remember that he saw nothing and, above all, did nothing”.
