Marine Le Pen held a meeting in Avignon (Vaucluse) this Thursday, April 14, the last before the big debate on April 20 against Emmanuel Macron. The opportunity for the candidate of the National Rally (RN) in the presidential election to attack the outgoing president and to decline certain strong measures of his program.
“Here we are almost at the end of the road, a road for the defense of the people, a long, often steep road, always strewn with pitfalls, crossed by gusts”, thus launched Marine Le Pen in front of a crowd of 4,000 activists gathered to support the one who came in second position in the first round of this presidential election, with 23.15% of the vote.
After taking the time to thank her voters, whom she described as “faithful and courageous companions”, “silent and tireless sherpas”, the candidate of the National Rally ensured that she was addressing “all French people beyond the partisan affiliations” and invited “abstentionists” to vote “for the people”.
The French called “to block” EMMANUEL MACRON
Evoking a “quinquennium which will have divided, despised, hurt”, described as “wandering made up of youth and dressed in flirtatious smiles”, she then attacked Emmanuel Macron, booed by the crowd. He who, according to her, “refused to be a candidate in the first round to only be president and, who in the second, thinks he can only be a candidate, forgetting that he is also president”.
She also called on the French to “block”. “To block the collapse of the purchasing power of the French people and to tax hype, to block retirement at 64 or 65, to block judicial laxity, to block immigration which jeopardizes the balance of our social systems…”, she listed.
Marine Le Pen also spoke of “a five-year term of contempt”, underlining “the terrible words” used by the President of the Republic and his government: “those who are nothing”, “the non-essential”, “those who do not would not have the courage to cross the street to find a job”, “illiterate workers” or even “those who smoke cigarettes and drive diesel”.
A “truly alternative project”
Like a “remedy for despair”, Marine Le Pen then assured that she would propose “a truly alternative project”, detailing some of its “founding principles”, including “republican security in the face of the law of the mafias” and “the secularism which must be reaffirmed in the face of the rise of an obscurantism which oppresses women, challenges our values and lapses into terrorism”.
Advocating “equality of social justice and meritocracy” as well as the freedom to express oneself, to think, to create and to undertake”, she put forward some of the concrete measures that she intended to put in place. , if she is elected president on April 24.
Very applauded at this moment of the meeting, she notably announced her intention to “reinstate the 15,000 caregivers expelled as unclean”, referring to the caregivers who had refused to be vaccinated, and to “pay them the salaries they have been unjustly deprived, throwing him into anguish and despair”.
She then confided that her “first visit” would be “devoted to Europe”, explaining that she wanted to “bring together European Heads of State and Government to discuss the changes needed to put European authorities back at the service of the peoples and gradually transform the European Union into a European Alliance of Nations”.
Increase in purchasing power and help for the youngest
As for its “first measures”, they will concern “purchasing power with the reduction of VAT on energy, petrol, fuel or electricity” as well as “the transition to zero VAT on a basket of 100 basic necessities”. To help raise wages, the RN candidate also wants the “freeze of the increase in related employer contributions for five years for companies that will make the effort to increase all wages by 10%”.
She also announced her desire to “Bet on youth by allowing our children to embark on life and settle down”, in particular by raising the salaries of work-study trainees and apprentices, by exempting young people from income tax. up to their 30th birthday and exempting them from corporation tax for five years if they create their own company.
Other proposals: ensure that pensions are “never less than 1,000 euros”, “support carers”, “support the return of sustained growth, prosperity and job creation” or even “return to all French people, from cities, suburbs or countryside, their security and even their tranquillity”.
Finally, she advocated a “true territorial revolution to restore justice in favor of our rurality, so abandoned and yet so necessary to the balance of the country”, with a major regional development project bearing the name of “demetropolisation”. .
Concretely, according to her, it will be a question of “ending the concentration of activities in regional or national metropolises”. “A major rural policy”, with “tax incentives for moving to rural areas”, “a vigorous infrastructure policy” or even “aid for the installation of centers of excellence”.
“Ten days to convince”
“There are exactly ten days left, ten days to convince, ten days to win. All votes will count. Do not spare your time or your energy. The finish line is in sight and the last meters are going to be the most difficult,” she said after a fairly short meeting of around forty-five minutes.
Marine Le Pen finally ended her speech by asking her “friends” to “not doubt the victory”, which “has never been so close”. “I know how strong the will of our people is and how strong their determination to regain control is,” she concluded.