Niece of Marine Le Pen switches to right-wing Eric Zemmour | Abroad

Marechal, herself a well-known politician, declared her preference for Zemmour over her own aunt in the French newspaper Valeurs Actuelles: “I support the candidate who I think is best positioned, whose ideas I have always supported, to follow him to victory. .”

Marechal left political life five years ago after taking key positions in Le Pen’s eurosceptic Rassemblement Nationale. Her move to Zemmour’s camp will be seen as damaging to Le Pen, who is not always ahead of Zemmour in opinion polls.

In a poll published Saturday by the Ipsos-Sopra-Steria agency, Le Pen was at 14.5 percent and Zemmour at 13 percent. Current President Emmanuel Macron is on track to win the first round of the presidential election by 30.5 percent, according to the poll.

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