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Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen: Marine Le Pen “will never forgive herself” for her father’s exclusion from the FN

The former president of the National Rally considers it “inevitable that there will be issues that raise controversies” throughout 80 years of political life, although he considers it “regrettable” that Jean-Marie Le Pen “gets caught up in these provocations.”

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 Journal du website. Dimanche. .

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

Four years later, the finalist of the 2002 presidential elections considered that “the German occupation had not been particularly inhumane” and promised a “lot” to the singer Patrick Bruel: Marine Le Pen, president of RN, then decided to exclude him from the election . party, by withdrawing the 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 acted differently?'” argues the three-time failed candidate for the Elysée.

“Inevitable” to have controversial topics

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

“Over 80 years (of political life), unless you are a kind of Sarkozy or socialist ectoplasm, it is inevitable to have issues that arouse controversy,” he points out, considering however that it is “regrettable” that Jean-Marie Le Pen “got caught up in these provocations.”

“The problem is that it started again,” he laments again.

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“Pleasantly surprised” by the political reactions

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen was announced this Tuesday in a press release signed “Famille Le Pen.” But Marine Le Pen, who was on the plane taking her from Mayotte to mainland France, did not find out until later, during a stopover in Nairobi.

“At that moment I didn’t believe it. Then, out of conscience, knowing that I was in very fragile health, I called my sister to find out what was happening. And it was she who taught me,” says the member of parliament for Pas-de-Calais. .

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

But, in relation to Emmanuel Macron’s statement, according to which “History will judge” Jean-Marie Le Pen, the one who lost twice in the second round of the presidential elections predicts that the “judgment of History” will be much harder. of State and “he will remember that he saw nothing and, above all, he did nothing.”

Author: SR with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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