Election campaign in France: survey shows clear trend - Le Pen makes video and is now in trouble
Created: 01/16/2022, 15:52
By: Franziska Schwarz
French politician Marine Le Pen in Saint-Malo in January 2022.
© Gerard Cazade/Imago
Right-wing populist Marine Le Pen wants to succeed French President Emmanuel Macron.
Can she use everything as a backdrop for this?
Paris - France will elect a new President in April and May.
In the polls, the incumbent head of state, Emmanuel Macron, is currently ahead by a nose of 25 to 26 percent, without having officially announced a candidacy so far.
The conservatives Valérie Pécresse and the extreme right Marine Le Pen are also considered promising with 16 to 17 percent each.
The latter is now in trouble because of an election campaign clip.
Because she speaks in him in front of the famous pyramid of the Louvre.
"The collapse of the country and the descent of the French: here in front of the Louvre the tenure of Emmanuel Macron began," she tweeted.
Election campaign in France: Le Pen in dispute with the Louvre
The museum doesn't find that funny at all.
The shooting was not approved,
Le Parisien
quoted an unnamed source from the Louvre as saying.
The management of Le Pen's team tried to prevent the clip from being broadcast - in vain.
“We belong to all the French.
We cannot stand for the identity of any political party.
However, in her clip, Marine Le Pen claims the image of the Louvre as her own,” the French newspaper quoted the source as saying.
France: Right-wing populists use the Louvre as an election campaign backdrop
If you want to link your public image with the Louvre, you first have to agree on a “partnership agreement” with the museum.
Le Pen's campaign team doesn't have one.
In any case, a cooperation never came about because it was a political campaign.
Le Pen's deputy campaign manager spoke about a "disagreement" over what falls under the "right to use for all" in the incident.
The Louvre had the same problem with an election campaign clip by Éric Zemmour.
He too is a right-wing populist, standing in front of the pyramid.
He received similar mail from the Louvre as Le Pen, reports
Le Parisien
.
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