The spokesperson for the RN and deputy for the North Sébastien Chenu returned, Saturday April 16 on France Inter, to the program of his candidate while commenting on the results of Emmanuel Macron.
On France Inter, Sébastien Chenu first gave his opinion on the withdrawal of Robert Ménard, mayor of Béziers and supporter of Marine Le Pen, from the campaign: “Robert Ménard is a free man, he is not a member of the RN, but wishes to see Marine Le Pen president of the Republic. He doesn’t agree with everything, and therefore he doesn’t want his speaking time counted. »
The deputy was then questioned on the theme of “national priority”, a major axis of the program of the far-right candidate. He declared that “the national priority is not an exclusivity but a priority” and added that the party considers “that nationals have priority in terms of housing, access to employment, which already exists with the right to voting for example. ” For him, ” ” the priority is to ensure that, when housing becomes available, we can offer them first to the French. »
What about our European neighbours? Will they be subject to this same regime? “The national priority is for French or binational citizens. We can look to extend it to Europeans, but it is specific to the French […] It’s not against others. When you are a national citizen, you have additional rights. When you are a European citizen, you cannot vote in national elections, for example. »
A question followed on the place of Europe in France if Marine Le Pen were to be elected on April 24. Sébastien Chenu explained: “We want to put the Commission in its place, that is to say less power for the European Union and more power for France. The Commission is giving itself powers which means that it often advances against the people. We want the French Constitution to be superior to the European texts and for France to be the leader of the countries not aligned with the European Union. »
The deputy from the North said he was counting on reserves of votes on the left and on the right
Ditto for the migration issue, and what the RN calls “permanent controls”: “This question of permanent controls within the European Union can only be resolved if there are physical borders. These are not necessarily controls such as we imagine them with border guards and others, but the interest is to control the points which pose problems. »
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Describing the Macronist power as “brutal”, the deputy from the North said he was counting on reserves of votes on the left and on the right. For him, reservations are everywhere: “among abstentionists, among patriotic left-wing voters, and among right-wing voters too. This project is not closed. He clarified, however, that they did not want to see “Manuel Valls, Jean-Pierre Raffarin or François Hollande” again and that the party did not have “resource concerns”, citing some members of the Macron government as an example. , initially unknown.
Sébastien Chenu also added that the RN “speaks with people from LR and the sovereignist left. I met parliamentarians, I continue to do so. Governments are not announced. We have more a problem of choice than of resources. “He made it a point of honor to defend the proportional to support his point and point out the problems of French democracy:” We are for the proportional. Currents of thought in our country must be better represented. The RN represents millions of voters with seven deputies and that rings false. »
And pensions in all this, major subject of the campaign? “From seventeen to twenty years, forty annuities for all those who started before twenty-one. This is the major axis of the project. We believe that those who work early and hard should be advantaged. Then, the system of twenty to twenty-four years, is progressive. We are still gaining years of retirement compared to the current system. »