MArine Le Pen played the intimacy card. The candidate of the National Rally (RN) spoke on Saturday February 5 in Reims in front of her activists on the “trials” of her life, concluding her speech on a very personal note, a rare exercise for her, after having mainly attacked Emmanuel Macron . “I deeply believe that the temperament, the course, the personality of the one that the French will choose are decisive” for the presidential election, she said, recounting her childhood and her career in front of a large fluorescent blue “M”.
Faced with 4,000 activists, she spoke of her “father” and former president of the FN (now RN), Jean-Marie Le Pen, whom she expelled from the party in 2015, “caught in the whirlwind of commitments that I saw too rarely” and “a somewhat special family”, marked by “political combat”, as well as “political violence” at school with “persecutions” which make him “today abhor any idea of discrimination”. “I measure the injustice, I know the suffering. »
I learned a lot, I fumbled, I sometimes failed, I fellMarine Le Pen
The far-right candidate also spoke of the 1976 attack, when she was 8, which hit the family apartment at Villa Poirier, in the 15and district, where she “brutally entered the world of adults”, as well as the “ultra-mediatized divorce” of her parents. “They instruct you in these ordeals”, she underlined, returning to her career as a lawyer and mother of three children “in one year”, whom she raised alone “a few years”. “The time I didn’t spend with them, I still spent on them. “I learned a lot, I fumbled, I sometimes failed, I fell”, but “I always got up”, she argued, saying she was “ready” for the “ supreme function”, without fearing “neither betrayal, nor ambushes, nor manoeuvres”.
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In search of credibility after her failed debate in 2017, the candidate had previously defended a “worked, thoughtful, complete” project which is “in total opposition to that of Emmanuel Macron and his clone Valérie Pécresse”, candidate of LR. “When the first ruins France, the second deceives its voters,” she said. While she spoke of “wildness [qui] encysts everywhere”, Marine Le Pen was very briefly interrupted by two Femen who tried to go on stage before being arrested by the security service. “Enjoy it. With the Islamists, you will soon no longer see a naked woman, ”said the candidate. The Femen explained on Twitter that they wanted to oppose his policy. “MLP Fascist not feminist,” they wrote.
“His five-year term was immense chaos”
Wishing to revive the duel of 2017, Marine Le Pen promised to “close” the “Macron parenthesis”. “Never forget that it was Emmanuel Macron who increased fuel taxes and robbed pensioners, causing the great popular movement of yellow vests”, “who claimed that it was enough to cross the road to find a job” or who “insulted the unvaccinated French people to make people forget their catastrophic management of the epidemic”, she listed.
“His five-year term was immense chaos” and “our society finds itself fractured like never before”, lamented the candidate, castigating her “compromises, both on Islamism and on immigration”, when her activists chanted “we are at home we “. “It’s up to the French to decide who populates France” and “the Islamist, totalitarian and murderous ideology, enemy of France, will be fought everywhere”, she promised, before discussing her proposals on power. purchasing, health and the economy.
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