Marion Maréchal, the scion of the Le Pen political dynasty, this week launched a new political party called Identity Liberties, vowing to fight the spread of wokism, mass immigration and Islamization in her homeland of France and at EU level. launched.
Maréchal, who has just won the recent European elections and won a seat in the EU parliament, has made clear plans to help nationalists, including his aunt, National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, come to power in France. He announced the formation of a new political party with a purpose. .
“I'm 34 years old and have two girls. I live in a devastated country and I'm full of anxiety. My obsession is to win the national team. This is the identity I've created.・This is the only purpose of the Liberties Movement!'' Populist Politician said.
marechal explained Stating that identity and freedom are “two key indicators of our struggle”, caveat “Mass immigration, the Islamization of our society continues to advance. Wokeism has spread to our schools and universities, and demolitionists are attacking every load-bearing wall of our civilization.”
Maréchal noted that another dissolution of the French National Assembly was “likely” to occur next year and that an early presidential election could be held to replace Emmanuel Macron. “There is a need to strengthen and expand the collaboration among the people's camps that were born during the dissolution of parliament,” he said. Parliamentary elections in June 2024. ”
Thanks to the alliance he has forged within the existing Reconquette party, Maréchal will start in earnest with MPs already in place in both the French and EU parliaments.
In Strasbourg, the Identity Freedom Party will: 4 In addition to Maréchal, other members of parliament under that banner include Guillaume Pelletier, Nicolas Bay and Laurence Troche. They will continue to belong to Giorgia Meloni's European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) group in the EU parliament.
Meanwhile, the new populist party will have three members joining the French National Assembly, including Thibault Monnier, Anne Sicard and Eddy Casterman.
In 2012, at the age of 22, Maréchal became the youngest politician ever to win a national election in modern France. He began his political career with the Front National (now Rally National), founded by his grandfather Jean-Marie Le Pen. I let it happen.
She took a break from front-line politics in 2017, but has since re-emerged to support right-wing controversial author and presidential candidate Eric Zemmour and his anti-mass immigration Reconquist party. It split with a family political party.
But the partnership between Mr. Marechal and Mr. Zemmour fell apart earlier this year. Le Pen's granddaughter has publicly appealed to Reconquet supporters to support her aunt's National Solidarity Party in the snap elections called after President Macron suffered an embarrassing defeat to Le Pen's party. European Parliament elections.
Zemmour claimed that Maréchal had done so without consulting him, branding the move a “global record of betrayal” and expelling her from the party.
After forming his own party this week, Mr Maréchal said he considers his aunt Marine Le Pen to be a “legitimate candidate of the national camp” in the next presidential election, which is why he has decided against the 2022 campaign in which he supported Mr Zemmour. In contrast, he said he supported Le Pen.
