Marine Le Pen judged on Friday “very worrying” the blocking of access to Sciences Po Paris the day before by students wishing to make their voices heard in the intervening rounds of the presidential election, affirming that “these young should respect this democracy”.
Marine Le Pen judged on Friday “very worrying” the blocking of access to Sciences Po Paris the day before by students wishing to make their voices heard in the intervening rounds of the presidential election, affirming that “these young should respect this democracy”.
“Did they miss the democracy course?”
“Sciences po, they missed the democracy course? They dried up? What were they doing? They left for the weekend? The democracy course, the Constitution course”, mocked the candidate of the National Rally, interviewed by BFMTV and RMC. “We are a country which is immensely lucky to have a democratic system, I find that these little young people should respect this democracy”, affirmed Ms. Le Pen.
“There are elections and they cannot, by blockages – I believe that it is deeply undemocratic – to oppose the will expressed by the French people”, she continued. “And that it’s Sciences Po students, I think it’s still very worrying (…) because it is precisely those who study political science, therefore study our democratic system”, she said. added.
“No to the far right”
Several hundred students gathered in front of the partly occupied Sorbonne in Paris on Thursday to make their voices heard in the interlude of the presidential election, and around 150 others blocked access to Sciences Po Paris , before being driven out by far-right activists.
At Sciences Po, banners read: “No quarter for fachos, no fachos in our neighborhoods” or “No to the far right”.