Moreover, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Le Pen’s niece and one of the party’s two MPs, is a prominent member of the National Front-sponsored France-Europe-Russia group, which advocates a “multipolar” – or, more accurately, a less American – world. Last December, Maréchal-Le Pen allegedly visited Aleksey Pushkov, chairman of the Duma’s international affairs committee and a reputed Putinist hardliner.