Presidential 2022: supported by L'Avenir Français, Marine Le Pen advocates "the spirit of unity"

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Never has political realism called for the rallying of all the national forces.

"It is with these words that the president of the National Gathering, Marine Le Pen, welcomed the new party of" L'Avenir Français ", presented this Monday morning during a press conference at the Hoche Salons in Paris.

Made up of a hundred dissident executives from Debout la France, the “

statutorily and financially independent

” movement aims to support the leader of the RN and to play a “

hyphenation

” role with the flame party. , as well for the regional and departmental elections as for the presidential term.

A new hand extended to the Member of Parliament for Pas-de-Calais, who is pursuing her strategy of openness with a view to 2022.

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While the nationalist camp has long sought an alternative candidacy to that of Marine Le Pen, the latter has emerged in recent months as the "

natural candidate of our political family

", according to the statements of Jean-Philippe Tanguy, former number two by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan and now national coordinator of the new “Gaullist right” movement.

A poll conducted by Harris Interactive at the end of January placed the candidate at 48% of the vote in the event of a duel with Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election - an unprecedented score.

“

She is in a position to win (…), she must win (…), she is the best candidate to win,

” repeated Jean-Philippe Tanguy.

The coordinator also castigated the “

strategy of isolation and division

” of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.

The DLF leader decided to go it alone for 2022, while he sealed in the same place, in 2017, an alliance with Marine Le Pen during the in-between rounds.

"The rally must be done from the first round"

“

Avenir Français gives a signal to all those who agree with many of our proposals but who, at this stage, do not dare to take the plunge.

Those who think that the only way to support my candidacy would be to join the National Gathering

, ”said Marine Le Pen, for her part.

“

I have said it and will repeat it: the RN's approach is not hegemonic, but partnership,

” she added, without failing to include this support in the strategic line of 2022. “

The gathering must take place do from the first round.

(…) In the first round, each family comes together, in the second round, the two qualified political families come to terms with the others to expand national unity.

This is why the vain candidacies, those of testimonies, or worse, the candidacies of mood (…) run the risk to our whole family of thinking of a harmful electoral diversion

. ”

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And to act on this "

spirit of unity

", Marine Le Pen has also repeatedly recalled her sense of "

compromise

".

“

I'm ready for it

,” she said.

I believe I have shown it by the notable programmatic inflections that we have made act by the national movement.

There will be others, certainly, as there will be throughout this campaign the appearance of new themes, new concepts, innovative ideas.

"

A "transpartisan spirit" at work from the regional

An openness that will also involve the presence of various personalities, in a "

transpartisan

spirit

".

Witness the heads of the lists already invested by the RN for the regional elections: the former Insoumis Andréa Kotarac in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the former national secretary of the UMP Sébastien Chenu in Hauts-de -France, the localist Hervé Juvin in the Pays de la Loire, or Laurent Jacobelli, former DLF, invested in the Grand Est.

The defector of the Republicans, Jean-Paul Garraud, is also invested in Occitania.

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“

We have made the choice to get out of protest and opposition to operate like a government force.

It is in this spirit that all the entities that join us will be associated with our work

, "said Marine Le Pen, guaranteeing that the presidential program will be drawn up"

in the light of these external contributions.

"

Finally, the member recalled: she will not be the candidate "

of the RN

" but "

supported by the RN

".

Marine Le Pen thus reaffirmed a possible departure from the presidency of the party once the congress has passed, scheduled for July 3 and 4 and supposed to officially nominate her as a candidate.