“Jean-Marie Le Pen has left this world, he has just entered the History of France,” reacted the deputy for Oise Michel Guiniot in a press release issued this Tuesday, January 7, shortly after the announcement of the death of the man nicknamed “the Menhir”.
Reached by telephone at the end of the afternoon, the Noyonnais parliamentarian expressed his “sadness”. Michel Guiniot explains “having known the politician, but above all the man”. “Pierre Descaves introduced him to me in 1989,” says the parliamentarian, “Jean-Marie Le Pen then asked me to work at the party headquarters to help the federations.” This is how Michel Guiniot began to scour the departments of France for National front. He was then tasked with working on the delicate matter of collecting sponsorships for the last two presidential campaigns of “JMLP”.
“A climate of trust between us”
After working “36 years for the party and 25 years with it, there was a climate of trust between us,” he reports. “He was a well of knowledge, a scholar who had a great knowledge of History in particular, a great knowledge in short and who shared,” says Michel Guiniot. In recent years, “he didn’t sleep much anymore, and at night, as a result, he read,” he says. “Pierre Descaves was my mentor locally, Jean-Marie Le Pen, nationally,” believes the elected official from Oise.
The deputy came “regularly to see him at his home, in a friendly setting”. The last time was this summer at the home of the founder of the Front, in the Paris region. “I didn’t stay long because he was very tired, he had lung problems. He talked less about politics, but he obviously wanted news from the National Assembly,” he remembers.
In terms of ideas, the Isarian parliamentarian evokes in his press release a man who “was wrong to be right too soon”. “After founding the FN in 1972, he warned over all these decades of the dangers that awaited France and the French, particularly the consequences of uncontrolled immigration, daily insecurity for the French, but also our loss identity of our people,” said the RN deputy.
“Today, even if his voice has died out, he will continue to represent the people, the fight for France, the defense of the sovereignty of the French nation,” concludes Michel Guiniot, who ends his press release with these words: “ To God President.”
