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Marine Le Pen: "I fear no one"

2020-09-04T19:03:23.609Z


The president of the National Rally, already a candidate for the 2022 presidential election, accuses the government and Emmanuel Macron of saying a lot


After a long summer, Marine Le Pen is back to school this Saturday, September 4 in Fréjus (Var).

Security, government stimulus plan, presidential: the president of the National Gathering answered the questions of the Parisien-Today-in-France.

Emmanuel Macron told the Pantheon on Friday that the Republic “does not admit any separatist adventure” because it is “indivisible”.

Do you applaud?

MARINE LE PEN.

He didn't invent anything.

All this is in the French Constitution.

The question is not whether we agree with this, but what we are doing against the separatist forces.

For the moment, what I heard as a proposal comes down, and I hope I am wrong, to the signing of a charter which recalls the values ​​of the Republic.

It is not up to par.

Like you, the ex-LR Xavier Bertrand speaks of a “Mechanical Orange” summer and the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin of “society's wildness”.

Are they welcome at the RN?

It is not enough to say the same as the RN to enter it.

These political leaders have been saying the same thing as the RN for 20 years!

Nicolas Sarkozy was elected by saying the same thing as the RN.

They were in power, but they did absolutely nothing.

You said Thursday that there is a "risk of a cold civil war" as in the United States.

That is to say ?

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It's a concept that was developed by Steve Schmidt, former Republican campaign manager John McCain, and journalist Carl Bernstein, about the rise in America of a form of racial warfare.

I do not want that for France, that the sowers of hatred make it fall into this risk.

I fear the contagion in our country of this cold civil war, but the Republic, as long as it is respected in its principles, is powerful enough to oppose it.

You released a video on Thursday on the 150 years of the Republic, before Macron.

In the past, you have given him polite remarks.

Are you going to do this every time?

I consider that the presidential campaign has already started.

Therefore, when it comes to speaking on big topics, it is quite natural for me to speak.

This allows the French to confront positions.

📹 This Friday, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Republic.



Never will the message of our Republic have been so necessary, and this message of fraternity and freedom, of protection and justice, of a France sure of itself, it is we who carry it!

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- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) September 3, 2020

Is Jean Castex a better Prime Minister than Edouard Philippe?

I heard Mr. Castex talk a lot, in his general policy speech, about territories, proximity, localism.

But I cannot find any of his big promises in the stimulus plan.

This stimulus plan does not satisfy you?

I note that VSE-SMEs receive crumbs in this plan: 3 billion out of 100 billion euros, it is ridiculous, while they are the beating heart of economic life.

Relocations only benefit from 1% of the plan, while we keep hearing the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister talk about it since the Covid crisis.

I fear this stimulus package will fail.

The sums granted to companies are not subject to any compensation in terms of job maintenance.

I would also have liked the military spending, which we know allows an economic recovery, to be integrated, that we ask for a financial effort from the large distribution which was the big beneficiary of the confinement.

Is a third of the plan dedicated to energy transition a good thing?

I am surprised that within the framework of this budget for ecological transition, we cannot find the means to modernize our nuclear apparatus.

It is he who has been the most efficient in recent decades to prevent the planet from increasing CO2 emissions.

I am delighted with the large thermal insulation plan, but I regret that the share intended for individuals is minimal.

You who call for a "strategic state", do you congratulate yourself on the establishment of a High Commission for Planning?

It's a good idea in itself, I even proposed it in my presidential program, but it all depends on its content.

We have been asking for the State to plan for the future, with a precise vision of the structuring of industrial sectors, of the relocation of production tools!

But the problem with this government is that it says a lot and does absolutely nothing.

Christian Estrosi calls for an alliance with Macron.

The dynamics of the rally do not seem on your side ...

What I had planned above all happens: LR never stops collapsing and the little that remains is imploding: a part follows Emmanuel Macron, with whom they have a great ideological proximity, it was M. Darmanin, M. Le Maire and, today, it is M. Estrosi.

The others, those who oppose Macron's policy, will join us.

François Baroin could give up being a candidate.

Does that surprise you?

No.

Paths, ideas ... he is Emmanuel Macron's twin brother, he would have had trouble differentiating himself.

You fear more that the candidate of the right is Xavier Bertrand?

He has already beaten you at the regional in 2015 ...

I fear no one.

You cannot seriously compare a regional and a national election.

What I see is that the LRs are facing a deep disaffection from their electorate, 8% in the European elections.

They have no natural leader and nothing more to say or to suggest, they will continue their implosion.

Will you be leaving the presidency of the RN and when?

There will be a Congress next spring, it is intended to appoint the president of the RN, who will also be the presidential candidate.

Then, can we keep the presidency of a party and be the candidate of all French people?

I'm wondering.

You are going to be a presidential candidate for the third time.

The French have not trusted you twice.

What are you going to change in the countryside?

We always learn from our mistakes, so as not to make the same ones.

There are subjects on which the French did not understand us, I am thinking of the economic aspect of our program.

We will get down to explaining to the French, to business leaders, to VSEs, SMEs, to the liberal professions what we want.

There are also other subjects such as health, taxation, education that we are going to deepen and bring to their attention.

You are internally accused of having partially purged the party this summer.

How do you respond to that?

These are absolutely ridiculous accusations, the regular modifications of the authorities, it is healthy, it contributes to the oxygenation of the party.

The people who left the nomination committee had very little time to devote to it.

Source: leparis

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