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Politico (28 December 2020)

By Elisa Braun

Several key players from French President Emmanuel Macron’s party have expressed concerns over a meeting between one of the Elysée’s aides and Marion Maréchal, a prominent member of the far right in France.

On Sunday, Le Monde reported that a lunch meeting was held in October between Bruno Roger-Petit, Macron’s adviser on historical memory issues, and Maréchal, the former MP who is the granddaughter of convicted Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen and the niece of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Rally party.

Maréchal, who left the party in 2017 after Le Pen’s second-round loss to Emmanuel Macron, recently launched a think tank to “feed public discourse” ahead of the next presidential election in 2022.

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