Between confessions and desire for protection, Le Pen dreams of being a French “mutti”

EShe will be “the candidate of the people”, not that of the concepts. The “solutions” candidate, not the “crazy promises” candidate. The candidate who will reconcile a “fractured” nation, when others divide it… In Reims, this weekend, Marine Le Pen went further than she had ever dared to embody this role of “muti” protector of a rolled country, to which it would be – by nature and unlike its opponents – structurally connected.

Before her speech ends on the stage of the exhibition center, in front of more than 4,000 activists waving signs and flags, there she is, dropping her desk and moving forward, while the lights dim. “I’m going to take a few minutes to tell you about myself…” And the sometimes wavering voice, the one that “climbed the poli…