2024-09-29 17:30:13
The face told him something, but he couldn’t remember who it really was. Even when he said the name of the new Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, Jean-Marie Le Pen was not able to recall in his memory a few incidents of his work. Or even to live in French politics.
In front of him, the television is always on, broadcasting programs from BFM-TV or CNews, but his guests half-heartedly admit the same observation: the former President of the National Front (FN) does not seem to understand the world really. that surrounds and even less the chaos of current events. Do you remember only the major events of your own political life? Another time, when I was talking about April 21, 2002, he did not know that he had reached the second round of the presidential election.”, confides Lorrain de Saint-Affrique, faithful for fifty years, who continues to take the train from Le Mans once or twice a month to spend two or three days with him.
In the 96th year, the former leader of France on the right who rose around 3 or 4 pm, walked a little to the side of his guardian in the garden of La Bonbonnière, this house that Jean-Marie and Jany Le Pen lived in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts- de-Seine), a lively district west of Paris, but not beyond. Since February, what was previously called “Menhir” has been under a “Future Protection Order”, which gives his three daughters the right to control all his decisions.
He will not appear in the trial of FN parliamentary assistants in the European Parliament, which is accused of “calculation and complicity in the misuse of public funds”, dismissed by two medical certificates that testify to the change of his and her intelligence. inability to respond to judges.
“You’re pretending”
A few guests, former elected officials and fellow travelers of the National Front or his ex-wife, Pierrette, who is still connected with him – no journalist has access to him since 2023 – all spoke the same: Jean-Marie Le Pen is today considered weak. You can repeat the pre-made sentences with random air – “I look at the world…” or “You have to make things happen” -, the conversation rarely goes further.
These songs from the interwar period that he willingly sings, these Latin quotes that he still knows, these delicate jokes that he still dares to look like a screen meant to shine. “He has preserved elements of language from his past political life, the kind of renewal which can create an illusion for a few moments, Convinced his youngest, Yann, was the only one of Le Pen’s three daughters to agree to speak about her father Global. It has been so long that it seems as if that prohibition is still on him. But, in fact, he is pretending. »
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