Revealed: the extreme right-wing links of leading French conservative MP's parliamentary assistant
Right-wing MP Hervé Mariton led the parliamentary opposition to the controversial bill on same-sex marriage that recently passed into law. Now Mediapart can reveal that his parliamentary assistant has close links with the extreme right, and even stood as a candidate for a radical far-right group when she was a student. The MP insists he had no idea about the woman's political affiliations when he hired her and says that she is now leaving his employment. Marine Turchi reports on an affair that once again raises the issue of links between the mainstream UMP and the far right in French politics.
IsIs the extreme right seeking to infiltrate France's leading mainstream conservative party, the UMP? That is the question raised after a Mediapart investigation exposed the far-right links of a parliamentary assistant working for a prominent UMP Member of Parliament who helped lead the fight against the same-sex marriage law.
