"The time has come."
The rallying cry is spread out in large white letters on the stage, facing the Roman theater of Fréjus.
If it was necessary, a count on the sides, D - 210, reminds us that the presidential race has indeed just started.
As every year, it is in this city of the Var that the National Gathering decided, this weekend, to make its comeback.
Seven months before the supreme election, the raout will have this time served as a launching pad for Marine Le Pen's third presidential campaign.
Who took the opportunity to withdraw from the presidency of his movement in the hope of better surpassing it.
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“April 10 and 24 will seal the fate of our country. There will be only two alternatives: either the dilution of France, or the salutary leap that will bring France into the third millennium around the idea of nation ”,
attack in the preamble of her speech, Sunday, the candidate on the open-air stage. Pastel blue jacket on the back - the same as on her first campaign posters - the candidate dramatizes the duel that she feels as much as she hopes with the Head of State in the coming months:
"This presidential election will not be only a choice of society, as previous polls may have been. It will be a choice of civilization (…). It will be, more than a vote, a historic choice. ”
Although stunned by the sun and the heat, a few thousand activists and executives are not mistaken - to the point of booing him - about the identity of the one that their champion accuses of
"accepting everything, dismantling everything, liquidating everything. "
: Emmanuel Macron.
The Marine Le Pen teams convinced her to register her first steps as a candidate under the sign of
"freedoms"
.
Concept a bit of a catch-all if there is one, but which is intended as a snub to the Head of State.
He who had made it, in 2017, one of the pillars of his presidential campaign ...
Change the constitution
While recalling her opposition to the health pass, against which she voted in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen accuses the government of having set up
"a company of registration and coping". “For having believed that freedom was a natural good, many no longer cared about it (…). Admit it, we feel that it is threatened today ",
warns the candidate before declining at leisure the freedoms to be safeguarded: political, union, expression, teaching, intellectual, to circulate ...
" I will be the candidate for French freedoms and believe me, that will change everything, ”
launches the nationalist leader to applause.
Between a divided left and a right trapped in its rivalries and internal tie-ups, Marine Le Pen assumes she wants to accelerate.
"My goal is not the barnum
," confided, during an informal exchange with the press, the candidate after a succession of closed meetings with her teams.
Considering the situation, spending my time in the field to meet the French while the others are all busy being on the sets to find out who is the best, that seems good to me. "
With the will to take speed his opponents, it unveiled, this weekend, five of its twenty-two presidential measures.
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In addition to the privatization of public broadcasting and the nationalization of highways, already unveiled in an interview with
Le Figaro
last Thursday, Marine Le Pen pledged to change the Constitution to
"engrave that no international or foreign decision can impose on the French measures contrary to their sovereign will ”.
The candidate also intends to make trains free for students and young workers outside peak hours. And make street harassment with a sexual connotation of the crimes and to register their perpetrators in the file of criminals and sex offenders.
A haste, some executives slip, not completely decorrelated from the electoral ambitions of the essayist Eric Zemmour, whose ambitions have continued to occupy the discussions throughout the weekend.
"There is no excitement vis-à-vis any candidate whatsoever,
sweeps in front of the press Marine Le Pen.
There have always been marginal candidates to the right of the RN: Villiers, Mégret, Dupont-Aignan… ”
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A serenity more difficult to feign in the face of the abstention observed during the last polls, particularly among RN voters.
“What scares me are people who say to themselves: 'It's no longer worth it',
concedes Marine Le Pen's special advisor, Philippe Olivier
. We need to talk to them at home, and to them. "
If the campaign team will settle on September 20 in its brand new headquarters, Marine Le Pen is preparing to spend the next hundred days on the roads.
