“We have entered a pre-presidential phase. "Marine Le Pen announced Thursday during her vows to the press, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), that she was preparing for the presidential election of 2022. The president of the National Rally said he wanted to propose a" project of great alternation ”facing Emmanuel Macron during the next presidential election.
"Beyond the daily contests [...] we have entered a pre-presidential phase," she said. "My decision has been considered, but it is taken. My project is to go towards a project of national unity around a great French design, a great unifying project that can bring together the French wherever they come from, ”she announced.
Municipal straight line
"It was therefore very early, without prejudging the decision which belongs to the congress of our movement which will take place in 2021, that I expressed my desire to prepare the presidential election," insisted the deputy, who had already said want to be a candidate in 2022.
This statement comes as the president of the National Rally launched on Sunday in Paris, her party in the final stretch of the municipal, where she intends to strengthen its bastions.
Marine Le Pen explained that "for a year", she had "withdrawn, not from the elections but from pure electoral contests, from immediate combat, to favor substantive reflection, less visible work, sometimes less flamboyant, but more essential ”.
The specter of the failed debate of 2017
“This distance, I do not do it by calculation but by instinct, not by timidity but by requirement. I know that the French will only give their confidence on the condition of competence, "argued the finalist of the 2017 election, who had been accused by his opponents of incompetence after his failed debate against Emmanuel Macron between the two towers.
“We absolutely must be up to the task that we ask the French to entrust to us. We don't improvise as president, but we prepare for it, ”she insisted.
