Speaking in front of more than 800 people in Orléans, Marine Le Pen promised in her first electoral campaign rally that, in the event of victory, she will form a government of national union, pluralist and directed by the current president of the party, Jordan Bardella. The far-right candidate wants to make France "a nation of peace" and claims that she will not send young people to "die in wars that are not ours"
The favorite candidate for the French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen, declared in the first electoral campaign opening rally, in Orléans, that she does not want to "remake the France of the past" but that she wants to "build the France of tomorrow". In her speech, Le Pen relaunched her election campaign slogan, 'The Renaissance for France': comparing the current period to the historical era to which she wants to refer, the leader of the Rassemblement National illustrated her 'Renaissance' as 'a method, not a brutal rupture and even less a destructive revolution'.
"It will be an open executive given the situation of a divided country"
Speaking in front of more than 800 people in Orléans, Le Pen promised that she would create an "open government" given "the situation of a divided country" and the "desire of the French for unity". "Every citizen - he underlined - with the diversity of paths, talents, sensitivities, is called to participate in the French rebirth movement that I propose to the country". Marine Le Pen has promised that she will form a "national union", "pluralist" government led by the current president of the party, Jordan Bardella, in the event of victory next May.
Le Pen: "I will fight obscurantism and Islamist ideology"
Marine Le Pen has promised to pursue the "rebirth" of France and to fight "all obscurantisms", starting with that of "Islamist ideology". "We reject the stigmatization of women in the name of a dogma from another era", declared the leader of the French far right, indicated by all polls as the favorite for the presidential elections scheduled for next April and May.
Le Pen: "national defense and no to shared nuclear weapons"
Marine Le Pen said she was against delegating the defense of France and its "mutualization", in a clear reference to the European Union. Defense will be "national, with a national army", said the leader of the French far right. "I aim to equip France again with a powerful and modern army," declared Le Pen, favorite in the polls for next year's presidential elections, also expressing her refusal to share the atomic bomb.
"I will not send young people to die in wars that are not ours"
“I will not send our young men to die in reckless or irresponsible military adventures. And even less so in wars that are not ours" said Marine Le Pen. "Moving towards peace is not, as claimed by the armchair warmongers who crowd the ministries and television studios, an act of weakness, but an act of courage", said the leader of the Rassemblement National, often accused by political opponents of excessive indulgence towards Vladimir Putin's Russia. Le Pen added that she wants to inscribe the concept of "national community" in the Constitution.
“Criminals are not punished, mafiosi impose their law”
Marine Le Pen promised in Orléans to re-establish "the rule of law" by promising a crackdown on immigration and against violence in the streets, while the country is experiencing weeks of protests against the high cost of living. In front of 8,500 supporters at the Rassemblement national, the leader of the far right, favored in the polls, proposed "not a return to the past, but the dawn of a new era". "Who can say that there is a rule of law when hordes come to loot and burn our buildings?" said Le Pen, accusing Emmanuel Macron's centrist government of weakness towards violent protesters and a lack of authority.
Re-establishing French cultural identity
Le Pen, 58 years old and already a candidate for the Elysée three times, has promised to defend the French cultural identity, from language to traditions, from values to lifestyle. "We want France to regain its strength," he said, amidst tricolor flags and chants of "we will win." On immigration he announced: "We will re-establish our borders and we will even introduce double borders, French and European." French citizenship, he added, "will once again become a privilege that is inherited or acquired". Before her, the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, spoke and promised a crackdown against the "ultra-left", lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 16 and the expulsion of "delinquents and criminals".
