Faced in France at Marion Maréchal’s malaria, the National Gathering candidate in the presidential election has found, in particular, on Saturday, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Le Monde
The climate on the presidential campaign of Marine Le Pen in France having a little fresh, after its niece Marion Marshal said “Pencher” in favor of Eric Zemmour, Friday, January 28 from Figaro , the far-right candidate sought the political sun in Madrid, Saturday, meets its continent’s illiberal allies. Among them, the first Hungarian ministers, Viktor Orban, and Polish, Mateusz Morawiecki, nearly two months after a similar meeting in Warsaw.
For Marine Le Pen, the challenge is to reinforce its international stature and credibility as to its ability to access power, while claiming to have obtained for its campaign a loan of 10.6 million euros ” from a European bank “, confirming information from BFM-TV Friday . It is also an opportunity to stand out from Eric Zemmour, whose travels in London and Geneva have been chahutés, while he had advanced his far-right competitor in the fall at Viktor Orban, in Budapest, Marion Marshal company.
In Madrid, the national gathering candidate does not exclude “chatting”, with his Polish allies, the future of the two old MEPs recently gone to Eric Zemmour, Jérôme Rivière and Gilbert Collard. The two elected officials were excluded from the Identity and Democracy group (ID) to the European Parliament, where the RN, but could be tempted to join another group. The candidate took care to be accompanied by MEP Nicolas Bay, Senior Vice President of the ID Group, who “has its place” with her, she stressed Wednesday.
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As for the political project, it is Marine Le Pen, who has given up out of the euro, to demonstrate that sovereigants can “change Europe from within”, even if nothing is Expected from this summit, to which will not assist the leader of the Italian league, Matteo Salvini. The French candidate has already expressed his support for Poland and Hungary in their iron arms with the European Commission, advocating like them the primacy of national law on European law.
But differences remain, especially about the Ukrainian crisis. Marine Le Pen invokes NATO commitments to “can not have forces at the Russian border”, while Eastern countries are worried about military strengthening committed by the Kremlin.
Arriving Friday in the Spanish capital, Marine Le Pen took care to salute his “friends” of the Vox party, the host of the meeting, who had established a partnership with the Marion Marechal Political Science School. Friday on Cnews , the candidate for the Elysee had judged” violent “that his niece thinks to join his rival by insisting on “The personal aspect” of their relationship, and ensuring being “better placed” to win in April that the old editorialist. What M me Marshal challenged both in Figaro only from the Parisian , estimating That the polemist had made “a lot of progress in posture, tone, gravity” since his entry into campaign.