{"id":14204,"date":"2014-06-17T12:43:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14204"},"modified":"2014-06-17T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:43:29","slug":"french-politicians-have-organised-their-own-impotence-marion-marechal-le-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14204","title":{"rendered":"French politicians have &#8216;organised their own impotence&#8217;: Marion Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young French politician and Front National parliamentarian, Marion Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen, said that her colleagues from the centre-right UMP and Socialist Party &#8220;have organised French political impotence&#8221;. She was participating last night in a debate on the &#8220;War of the right-wing parties&#8221; on the talkshow &#8220;Les mots crois\u00e9s&#8221; on France 2, the state-owned channel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14217\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/marion_marechal-lepen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14217 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/marion_marechal-lepen-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"marion_marechal-lepen\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marion Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen on last night&#8217;s programme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen went further and claimed, in a rare statement for a sitting parliamentarian and member of the National Assembly in her country, that &#8220;one may well ask oneself the question, whether politics still has the capacity\u00a0to change things&#8221;. She blamed &#8220;successive transfers of sovereignty to Europe, as well as government by the judges of the European Court of Human Rights whose ultra-extensive jurisdiction takes precedence over internal law&#8221; for this state of affairs. Circulars from Brussels to governments constitute another source of power abuse as bureacrats dictate to politicians what to do in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to Marion Mar\u00e9chal Le Pen, the centre-right UMP &#8220;has been an accomplice to all of that&#8221;, and regardless of their sympathies for the Gaullist tradition in France, she feels that the European issue has to be confronted as it affects &#8220;the power of politics and the maintenance of politics in France&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young French politician and Front National parliamentarian, Marion Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen, said that her colleagues from the centre-right UMP and Socialist Party &#8220;have organised French political impotence&#8221;. She was participating last night in a debate on the &#8220;War of the right-wing parties&#8221; on the talkshow &#8220;Les mots crois\u00e9s&#8221; on France 2, the state-owned channel. Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;French politicians have &#8216;organised their own impotence&#8217;: Marion Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[8957,534,9087,9086,9085,963,8694],"class_list":["post-14204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-fn","tag-france","tag-france-2","tag-les-mots-croises","tag-marion-marechal-le-pen","tag-politics","tag-ump"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14218,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions\/14218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}