The head of LFI “got Emmanuel Macron elected” by asking his voters not to vote for her, said the unfortunate candidate in the presidential election, from his stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont.
Marine Le Pen on Sunday launched her campaign for the legislative elections in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), where she is a candidate for re-election, targeting Jean-Luc Mélenchon, described as “Jester“, for having, according to her, favored the re-election of Emmanuel Macron.
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“Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s fable opposing Emmanuel Macron, we may stop now… It lasted 15 days, it made everyone laugh“, she declared on her arrival in this RN municipality, which is part of the 11th district of Pas-de-Calais, where she has been elected as a deputy since 2017.
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“He plays the fools of the king, he overplays the insolence with regard to the president“Launched the former RN presidential candidate. But “the reality is that Jean-Luc Mélenchon had Emmanuel Macron electedby asking her voters not to vote for her, she said. “It absolutely discredits him to be able to put himself in the position of the opponent.»
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Marine Le Pen also made fun of the leader of La France Insoumise, who has been trying in recent weeks to lead the rally on the left. “To be able to win a legislative, he would have to agree to run, already. That would be a good start“, quipped Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon having announced that he himself would probably not be a candidate.
“The fight» is «not finished»
The unfortunate candidate for the presidential election took a walk in the city market on Sunday and multiplied the selfies. She was then to deliver a speech.
She assured that “the fight“was”not finished, because the policy that Emmanuel Macron intends to implement is just as harmful today as it was 15 days ago“. She said she hoped the RN would come in “in force in the National Assembly to lead the fight against the social policy that Emmanuel Macron wants to implement“.
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“We will also fight against laxity, the one we have seen at work for 5 years in terms of insecurity, immigration, which is one of the points where the alliance between Mélenchon and Macron is perhaps the most dangerous.“, she said.
The far-right elected official laid a wreath at the cemetery during her visit for the May 8 ceremony alongside the RN mayor of the town, Steeve Briois. “After the tragic 20th century, 77 years later, there arise the hideous sounds of war in Europe, these broadcast-length images of destruction and desolation, the floods of tears and blood before our eyes, the torrent of millions of refugees on our doorstepshe said in her speech.
“Peace, which we believe to be immutable and definitive, is not (…) The aggression of which Ukraine has been the victim proves to us (…) the need for all countries to guarantee the means of their own national defenseadded the one who was accused by her opponents of complacency with Putin’s Russia during the presidential campaign.
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Marine Le Pen will notably face in her constituency Marine Tondelier (EELV), opposition municipal councilor in Hénin-Beaumont, invested by the “New popular ecological and social union(Nupes). She was spokesperson for the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot.