Saturday during the presidential convention in Reims, RN candidate Marine Le Pen repeatedly targeted the head of state. She denounced “the errors, the vanity, the cynicism” of the President of the Republic. But more surprisingly, she decided to split the armor. “Now my friends, I’m going to take a few minutes to tell you about me,” asked the candidate. After 1 hour of speech, she leaves her desk, walks to the edge of the stage and begins by confiding in her personal story.
“As far as my memories take me, politics is part of my existence. A father that I saw too rarely. A special family where ideas, action, political fights punctuated life. Very quickly, I experienced political violence when I was a little girl at school. I was made to pay for my father’s commitment, “she says.
Strike the chord
The frontist candidate also evokes the bomb attack targeting the family home in 1976, or her status as a “single-parent” mother. “And then I became a mother, quickly, of a large family. Three children in less than a year. My children, I raised them alone. My children who will understand one day that the time I have not spent with them, I spent it on them”.
Ten minutes in total during which Marine Le Pen struck a chord before returning to her political career. “I learned a lot, I fumbled, I sometimes failed, I fell, I always got up”. And in front of her, 4,000 activists, sympathizers, standing and applauding. Many of whom have told Europe 1 that they feel closer to their candidate compared to 2017.
Guest on Europe Midi Week-End, the political scientist and president of the Pollingvox institute, Jérôme Sainte-Marie, returned to the battle between Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen. “I think everyone understood that whoever attacked the other would be punished by a part of their potential voters who vote for a nationalist candidate,” he said.
He also said that the candidates enter a competition where things will now be done in comparison. “In comparison on the quality of the individuals much more than on the programs which in fact are quite close.”