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France: The far-right MEP Marion Maréchal will attend Trump’s inauguration ceremony

by AI | 15.Jan 2025 | Europe in brief AI

French far-right MEP Marion Maréchal is due to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington on Monday. Her aunt Marine Le Pen, the leading figure of the largest far-right party, has not yet received an invitation.

Marion Maréchal, Member of the European Parliament for the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), attends a voting session to elect the new President of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on July 16, 2024. (Photo: FRÉDÉRIK FLORIN / AFP)

Paris – Marion Maréchal indicated that her invitation to Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony had been “officially confirmed immediately” after her election as vice-president of the European ECR party on Tuesday.

The ECR (European Conservatives and Reformists) is an “official partner of the American Republican Party,” Marion Maréchal emphasized in a statement.

This group in the Strasbourg Parliament, chaired by former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, notably includes the MEPs of Fratelli d’Italia, the post-fascist party of the Italian government leader, Giorgia Meloni.

Ms. Maréchal intends to “work in France to import the logic of cooperation between the right-wing parties initiated in Europe and the model of a right-wing coalition that has allowed the victory of our ideas in other countries”.

The entourage of Marine Le Pen, who leads the largest far-right party in France, the National Rally, indicated to AFP on Wednesday that no invitation to the inauguration ceremony had yet been received by her movement. (January 15, 2024)