Several members of French President Emmanuel Macron’s party have expressed concerns over a meeting between one of the Élysée Palace aides and Marion Maréchal, who is the niece of the prominent far-right politician Marine Le Pen. While the reported meeting between Bruno Roger-Petit and Marion took place in a private room at the Paris brasserie in October, the French President, however, is now facing accusations of appealing to extreme-right supporters.
As per reports, Marion had left the far-right National Rally party back in 2017 after Le Pen’s second-round loss to Macron. She had also dropped Le Pen from her family name in 2018. She is the granddaughter of Front National party’s founder, Jean Marie Le Pen, and she was the French republic’s youngest ever MP. While speaking to a local French media outlet Le Monde, Élysée Palace’s senior advisor said that the meeting was set up on a personal initiative and that the goal was to survey Marion’s political opinions.
