Rising far-right star resurfaces, flirts with fire
By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press - Sunday, July 7, 2019
In this June 22, 2018 file photo, Marion Marechal delivers a speech as she inaugurates the Institute of Social Sciences, Economics and Politics (ISSEP) in Lyon, central France.
PARIS — She vowed to stay out of politics and even dropped the French far right’s signature name - Le Pen - from her moniker. But Marion Marechal, a former star lawmaker who’s still only in her 20s, is now tip-toeing back into the political arena, and is already causing trouble.
Widely seen as a potential party leader, the 29-year-old’s discreet meetings in recent days to build bridges with enemy conservatives, crippled by their crushing defeat in European Parliament elections, are further unsettling the mainstream right.
The forays into forbidden territory by the woman once voted the most popular in the far-right National Rally party (formerly the National Front) led by her aunt, Marine Le Pen, have also raised questions about Marechal’s political intentions - and whether a new war within the Le Pen clan is afoot.
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