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Maréchal said she would "most certainly return to politics". Meanwhile, the niece of Marine Le Pen, who had retired to establish an institution of high learning, the Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences (ISSEP), has been setting the stage for her return.
This was illustrated by her interview with the British weekly The Economist, as cited by Le Figaro, which seems to widen the gap that separates Maréchal from the President of the National Rally.
She is not yet sure when she will return to the political scene, but Maréchal appears to be defining the framework of the policy she would like to put forward soon. After having dropped her first surname and, apparently, distanced herself from the political legacy of Le Pen, Marion Maréchal has claimed "conservatism" while her aunt rather sees a current of thought "against meritocracy", according Le Figaro.
Marine Le Pen has also agreed with the label of being "populist", but Marion Maréchal has refused it.
Finally, a sign of a break in their beliefs, is that the two women do not agree on a crucial point, which has long been an historical marker of the Le Pen party: immigration. After the ideological shift in 2014, Marine Le Pen qualified the theory of a "great replacement" by means of immigration as a "conspiracy vision", and last Sunday on the plateau of France 3, she added that she "does not know" such theory.
Her niece, on the other hand, believes the Great Replacement is "not absurd", quoting a study that suggested "indigenous French" would be a minority by 2040.
The notion originated with French author Renaud Camus, who published Le Grand Remplacement in 2012. In it he argued native "white" Europeans were being reverse-colonised by non-white immigrants.
"The great replacement is very simple," he has said. "You have one people, and in the space of a generation you have a different people."
By siding with the author Camus, Maréchal shows, according to the British weekly, her desire to "break the ideological conformity" of French thought.
"We want our country back," she told a US audience in 2018, saying "France is in the process of passing from the eldest daughter of the Catholic Church to the little niece of Islam... this is not the France that our grandparents fought for."
She added there "is a youth ready for this fight in Europe today".
Maybe the granddaughter is more direct and clear with the message. That might be true. And it is OK. A group of people sharing ideas. About things that are happening. That are unwanted.
The concept of the Great Replacement is not an hypothesis. It is a fact. In the city of London the amount of white Caucasian British people is now less than 50%. Apparently there is even a joke in the East (Asia). That says London is no longer British. As even the City Council major is of migrant origin. Therefore a sign the city is of no attractive; neither admired as a showcase of the old British Empire (and Commonwealth). It is therefore in ruins and decadence. In Spain I read some [apparently official] statistics comparing the levels of immigration. For years 1995 towards 2015. Immigration changed from 3% to 14.8%. Consider also native citizens have fewer children (in Catalonia, 1.65 children for family). Migrants usually have more. So population replacement is a fact. When I use public transport in Barcelona, I perceive [native culture] citizens are a minority.
It is too late to fix that trend. Anyone aiming at reversing it, will need drastic deportation measures. That will receive criticism, and labels of «fascists plotting ethnic cleansing». In some form immigration have already replaced native citizens. As some jobs are unwanted, hard to work, tiny economic compensation, and no incentive for young children which seems to prefer a comfortable job with no responsibility (and air conditioning). So in essence forced deportation could seriously harm local businesses. Abruptly changing the cost of products and food. Thus feeding into a crisis as society cannot deal with so many changes in a small period of time.
As somehow is stated in the article. There is no conspiracy theory. The Great Replacement is a trending fact. That [I add] leads towards a potential crisis. I knew one high level politician [now dead] that told me public institutions have looked into this subject for a very long time. They had many decades to study immigration (and analyze the profitability of their presence). I'm talking about a time in which computers did not exist. I perceive the era of cheap labor through immigration is over. Cannot sustain it for long. The period of decreasing the markets is around the corner. And some political parties will for sure play the nationalistic card. To deport all those migrants that are not profitable for the hosting nation.