Marion Maréchal launches her “anti-awake and anti-welfare” political party to try to exist against Eric Ciotti – Libération

Marine Le Pen’s niece announced Monday, October 7 in “Le Figaro” the launch of her “civilian right” stable, Identité-Libertés, hoping to find substance alongside the Nice coalition of the National Rally.

True to her sense of timing, Marion Maréchal chose the monster first anniversary of October 7 to announce the creation of her political movement. Appropriate. Undoubtedly, the identity activists thought it was a bigger band of the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, which pitted a coalition of Christian nations, but not France, against the Ottoman Empire on the same day in 1571. An old story about the clash of civilizations that the previous party of Marine Le Pen’s niece, Reconquest, is already being stirred up. And guaranteed media coverage, on the eve, in addition, of the vote on the left side of the criticism motion in the National Assembly.

In an interview with Figaro, On Monday evening, the MEP thus revealed the name of its party: Identity-Libertés (IDL), whose mission will be “Give a civil rights voice that is at the same time an anti-wake, anti-welfare and anti-tax racket by breaking with “mental socialism” which has long guided public accounts.

Or less the same niche as the Union of Rights for the Republic, Eric Ciotti’s structure which maintains, as its name indicates – and just like Maréchal – the union of rights, which Marine Le Pen does not agree to again. To justify her use in her aunt’s team, the new party leader pulls a metaphor out of her pocket: “We’ll be stronger with three than with two and the Brit tells me that a triple is faster than a catamaran, especially when you’re upwind!”

Versailles Catholic Fiber

The name is not the first freshness. “Identity-Libertés” is rather transparently reminiscent of the Sovereignty, Identity and Freedoms party, launched by Paul-Marie Coûteaux in 2011 to try to give some reality to the “Marine Blue Rally”, which was conceived at the time as an extension of the National. front. The incident quickly ended with teeth gnashing and Coûteaux returned splashing in the backwater of the “Just outside the walls”, before she supported Eric Zemmour in 2022. In fact, by name, Marion Maréchal had little choice from her European motto, “Proud France”, in addition to that already stolen from a “patriotic think tank” created in 2016, quietly deposited at the National Institute of Industrial Property by Zemmourian’s executive, in June, when the former politician and deputy new European representative shooting at each other. . Unusable.

Like a cuckoo, Maréchal and his train of identities have therefore taken up residence in the Conservative Movement of Laurence Trochu, European deputy elected in June on the Reconquête list, and president for six years of this small party from the association of Sens Commun, created in 2013. during protests against equal marriage. In an email to members send Monday afternoon and consult with LibyaTrochu announces that it is “our authorities intend to give the presidency of our party to Marion Maréchal”. IDL also uses the logo of the movement – ​​a rooster – and its address, rue de Lourmel, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

In its small structure, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s granddaughter should cultivate the Versailles Catholic fiber that led to Zemmour’s relative success in the presidential election. She will defend “rejection of Islam or affirmation of our Christian heritage”, far from the secular screen of his aunt who claims to fight against him “Islamic ideology” other than the Muslim religion. As for life, Identity-Libertés should not be too much of a question, where Maréchal will be keen “a greater place is given to the private sector alongside the protection of the public […] as we attack private Catholic education.”

Voting discipline

This unprecedented program of the Ancien Régime should have some difficulty in making our MEP along with her aunt and colleague from Nice. Because, in addition to its three European deputies, who sit within the ECR, the competing group of the National Rally in Brussels, the three national deputies who should join IDL are within the initial group, as far as is concerned. And Marine Le Pen has said clearly and repeatedly that if Ciotti were to be respected as a partner and not a friend, the strictest voting discipline would apply to the Marion parliamentarians … including in relation to the repeal of the pension reform, which has been proposed by the top. parliamentary niche at the RN, on 31 October.

So Maréchal begins to nitpick on the subject. “My personal position will not surprise you: I supported an increase in the legal age, I want to reform the civil service system and I think we need to open up a share of capitalism. We will have to see exactly how this text develops, how it is amended. The goal is of course, always, to work well together. she finishes. At the end of the month, his three deputies should vote for repeal, unlike Eric Ciotti’s troops. The first snake to swallow in order to survive on board the catamaran. Sorry, trimaran.

Updated Tuesday 8 October at 12:26 pm with new information on the Conservative Movement.