Between Le Pen, a month of political crisis
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The executive office of the National Front will meet, Monday, May 4 in the afternoon to discuss the case of Jean-Marie Le Pen. It could decide on sanctions against the honorary president of the party for his remarks about the gas chambers and Petainism, held in early April on RMC and in the far-right weekly Rivarol. For a month, a heavy crisis set within the party, but between him and his daughter, Marine Le Pen, president of the FN. Retrospective.
- April 2: the return of the "point of detail" and the beginning of the crisis
Asked on RMC-BFM TV on his statements of 1987 (repeated in 1997 and 2009), when he was assured that the gas chambers were a "technicality" of history, Jean-Marie Le Pen maintains his remarks, for which he was sentenced by the courts. "What I said corresponded to my mind, that the gas chambers were a detail of the war," he explains. The honorary president of the FN also claims that there is "everything" in the party, "as well as fervent Gaullist Petain."
Marine Le Pen quickly distanced himself from his father: "I strongly disagree with Jean-Marie Le Pen, both in substance and in form, she told the World As for" fervent Petain ", this statement is mind blowing. . I do not know of the Front."The President of the FN specifies his thought with the Figaro.fr : his father is in a "avowed strategy" of "provocation", she said. And declare that their "differences" are now "acquired".
- April 8: the candidacy in question to regional
In a statement , Marine Le Pen opposes the nomination of his father as head of the regional list elections in December in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA). "Jean-Marie Le Pen seems to have entered a spiral between real scorched earth strategy and political suicide, she explains. Its status honorary president did not authorize any national hostage Front. "
- April 9: maintenance Rivarol and the disciplinary procedure
Jean-Marie Le Pen develops his remarks on Petainism Rivarol in an interview. "I have never considered Marshal Pétain as a traitor. The were very severe with him after the Liberation. And I never considered bad French or people who have preserved infréquentables esteem for the marshal, "there he assures. After disavowal of his daughter, he also seeks to settle accounts with her: "You're never betrayed by his. "
Florian Philippot, vice president of the FN, then judge on RMC-BFM TV that "the most acceptable solution" would snaps "back in retirement, he resigned from the movement."
TF1 invited that evening, Marine Le Pen announces the opening of a disciplinary procedure against her father. She claims in turn snaps back from the political life, "Jean-Marie Le Pen must be wise, to draw the consequences of the disorder he has created himself and perhaps stop its political responsibilities . "
The next day, on RTL, Jean-Marie Le Pen replied: "Ms. Le Pen is trying to dynamite his own training. She had the chance to have a unit in his party, it creates a major difficulty. "And the eyes of the old Poujadist, Florian Philippot is leading a sort of fifth column within the National Front, Marine Le Pen handling to complete an" external project for the FN to enter the herd. "
- April 13: the renunciation of regional
Jean-Marie Le Pen plays the card of appeasement by formally renouncing carry the FN PACA candidacy in favor of his granddaughter, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, supported by many Frontists frames . It is dubbed by Jean-Marie Le Pen himself - "I see that Marion," he declared the day before the JDD . On April 17, not surprisingly - the same morning, his possible rival for the nomination, MEP Bruno Gollnisch had announced his withdrawal from the race - the Politburo of the FN invests it.
- April 16: hospitalization
Jean-Marie Le Pen, 86, was hospitalized for a "small heart problem" in his words. He returned home three days later. His health casts doubt on its ability to confront the executive office of the FN scheduled on April 27 and is thus pushed back to May 4
- May 1: how to steal the limelight from her daughter
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The intervention was not at the annual parade of the FN program in memory of Joan of Arc in Paris. Red coat and smiling, Jean-Marie Le Pen for a few seconds steals the show from her daughter on the stage where it has to deliver his speech. Arms raised, cheered by the crowd under tight smile of Ms. Le Pen, the honorary chairman shall not speak - there was not invited. He did not stay to listen to the speech of Marine Le Pen, whom he does not exchange a look. In the crowd, we distribute free copies of its interview in Rivarol.
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- Sunday, May 3: it does "speak on behalf of the FN"
The gap between father and daughter seems to increase when the latter considers, in the "Grand Rendez-vous" Europe 1 Worldwide -i-TV, it must "speak on behalf of the National Front," and that its many provocations are "malicious acts" and are "contrary to the fixed line" by the leadership of the FN.
- Monday, May 4: sanctions?
In the afternoon, an executive office of the FN must meet to decide on possible sanctions against its co-founder and honorary president. In the morning, he attended the party's political bureau, responsible for appointing certain heads of lists for regional, but said he would not go to his call to the executive office.
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