{"id":369708,"date":"2024-06-13T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/06\/13\/reconquete-marion-marechal-francia-destra\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:04:03","slug":"marion-marechal-the-leading-candidate-for-reconquete-at-european-elections-was-expelled-from-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/13\/marion-marechal-the-leading-candidate-for-reconquete-at-european-elections-was-expelled-from-the-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Marion Mar\u00e9chal, the leading candidate for Reconqu\u00eate at European elections, was expelled from the party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – First the Republican Party and now Reconqu\u00eate<\/strong>, the French right is in turmoil: the search for new alliances ahead of the upcoming legislative elections (June 30 and July 7) has resulted in the defenestration of several key figures. After the disputed\u00a0expulsion<\/a> of \u00c9ric Ciotti<\/strong>, president of the Republicans,\u00a0from his\u00a0party, it was the turn of Marion Mar\u00e9chal, excluded from Reconqu\u00eate after running as a leading candidate in the European elections<\/strong>. The apple of discord in both cases is the search for an alliance with the Rassemblement National<\/strong> (RN) of Jordan Bardella<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

During an interview<\/a> on French television BFMTV, the leader and founder of the far-right Reconqu\u00eate<\/strong> formation, \u00c9ric Zemmour, announced the expulsion of Marion Mar\u00e9chal and those close to her. In the European elections, the far-right party (which ran under the name La France Fi\u00e8re) managed to win 5.5 percent of the vote, electing five MEPs, which increased the Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group.<\/p>\n

Zemmour has always strived to unify the French right and make it run with a single list. With elections approaching, he had given Marion Mar\u00e9chal the task of negotiating with the Rassemblement National. The newly elected MEP, however, failed to reach an understanding, accusing Zemmour of making too many demands and announcing that she would support the united candidates of the Rassemblement National and the Republican Party<\/strong>. Mar\u00e9chal’s statement sparked the ire of Zemmour, who said he was “hurt and disgusted” and decided to expel her from the party.<\/p>\n

A Matter of Family<\/h3>\n

Marion Mar\u00e9chal, therefore, will support the Rassemblement National in the upcoming legislative elections. A return to the fold, considering she is the\u00a0granddaughter, through her mother, of Jean-Marie Le Pen<\/strong>, founder of the Front National (FN) and Marie’s father.\u00a0Mar\u00e9chal was a member of FN (the name of the Rassemblement National until 2018), with which she was elected to parliament in 2012, becoming, at only 22 years of age, the youngest representative in the history of Republican France<\/strong>. Gradually, however, she drifted away from politics, eventually withdrawing in 2017. Two years later, with \u00c9ric Zemmour, she launched a political entity to bring the Gaullist right closer and uniting with the Front National.<\/strong> Mar\u00e9chal initially said\u00a0she did not want to re-engage in politics, but in 2022, she\u00a0became Vice-President of Reconqu\u00eate.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“It is the world record of betrayal,” Zemmour said of\u00a0 \u00a0Mar\u00e9chal’s choice, adding, “I was the one who designated her as the leading candidate in the European elections.\u00a0She received many donations from Reconqu\u00eate militants whom she betrayed with her choice.” The new MEP said she did not join FN but expressed her support for the right’s single list.\u00a0Furthermore,\u00a0Mar\u00e9chal expressed her desire not to run for the legislature but to bring the reasons of the French citizens who elected her to Strasbourg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mar\u00e9chal’s “return to the fold,” as Zemmour called it, is likely to complicate Reconqu\u00eate’s election campaign. For the party to succeed in electing its candidates to the National Assembly, it must win in the uninominal constituencies, obtaining either an absolute majority in the first round or a relative majority in the second. It is a difficult mission considering that at the latest legislative elections in 2022,<\/a> Reconqu\u00eate obtained 4 percent in the first round and, in addition to failing to elect any deputies, it did\u00a0not even make it to the second ballot. Therefore, Mar\u00e9chal dropping out risks taking away votes that could prove decisive in a majoritarian system where those who take one more vote elect their candidate, and those who lose are left high and dry.<\/p>\n

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“It’s the world record for betrayal”: \u00c9ric Zemmour’s reaction to Marion Mar\u00e9chal’s call for a “union of the right” pic.twitter.com\/k3Iws2H5DP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 BFMTV (@BFMTV) June 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The failure of \u00c9ric Zemmour’s far-right party to reach an agreement with the Rassemblement National is behind this decision. After the President of the Republicans, \u00c9ric Ciotti, another prominent member of the French right is kicked out of the political formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7870,"featured_media":369674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681,25707],"tags":[26757,28179,28178,27771],"class_list":["post-369708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world-politics","tag-reconquete-en","tag-eric-zemmour-en","tag-elections-french-en","tag-marion-marechal-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369756,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369708\/revisions\/369756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}