Shaping his presidency 11 days from the first round.
This is what Marine Le Pen tried to do on Wednesday afternoon during a press conference organized at the Salons Hoche in Paris on the foreign policy and diplomacy that she would implement in the event of an election. Sunday April 24.
While Emmanuel Macron relies on field trips and sometimes tough face-to-face meetings with the French to play the "proximity" card, the nationalist leader hopes to strengthen her stature and endorse one of the prerogatives of the president. of the Republic.
Namely, the place and the voice of France in the world.
To discover
LIVE - Presidential election: follow the start of the second round campaign
Presidential 2022: find here the result of the first round of the election
Second round: compare the programs of Macron and Le Pen
Read alsoPresidential debate: how Marine Le Pen is preparing for the return match
From the outset, Marine Le Pen displayed two objectives: "
to restore the influence of
French diplomacy" and to put the country "
in the concert of nations
".
And this, by enrolling
“in an intellectual and historical vision because France is a nation apart (...).
between the greatness of centuries-old France and the freedom of the world.
“Africa, Asia, United States … The contender of the RN unfolded in a somewhat forbidding way her ambition and the links she intends to weave with each country and each sphere of influence.
Among the latter, three hold her attention: Lebanon which
“will constitute one of (her) priorities”,
Algeria, of which she wishes
“the normalization of relations”
with France, and of course Russia.
“It is in the interest of France and of Europe”
While war is still raging at the gates of Europe, the nationalist petitioner wishes to undertake a
"strategic rapprochement between NATO and Russia"
when the war between Vladimir Putin's country and Ukraine
"will be over and will have been settled by a peace treaty.
A proposal which is surprising as the international organization could be a source of tension between the two Eastern countries.
Regardless, Marine Le Pen explained:
“It is in the interest of France and Europe, but also, I believe, of the United States, which has (...).
no interest in seeing the emergence of a close Sino-Russian union.”
During this press conference, the nationalist candidate also did not escape questions about her relationship with Vladimir Putin.
Long criticized for her leniency towards the Russian regime, she replies that she
"defended only the interests of France"
and that
"the trial which (him) is made is particularly unfair."
All this, based as usual on the welcome that Emmanuel Macron offered to his Russian counterpart in Versailles at the start of his five-year term and in Brégançon in 2019.
Read alsoPresidential 2022: Marine Le Pen attacks Macron on his practice of power
A response interrupted by an environmental collective which aimed to denounce the proximity between Marine Le Pen and the master of the Kremlin.
A woman, who had held up a sign in the shape of a heart – where the photo of the meeting of the two personalities was displayed – was quickly expelled, then dragged for a few seconds on the ground.
Despite a strong hubbub in the room, the one who seeks the supreme function tried to come to her senses:
“You are a provocateur, I have other things to do than answer you.”
The opportunity to break away once again from the loan of nine million euros that the FN had granted in 2014.
"I am completely independent of any link, of any power, of any firm of any nationality"
, he she throws.
Read alsoPresidential 2022: Marine Le Pen approaches the second round under better auspices than in 2017
The presidential contender has finally defended her vision of major international structures.
If Emmanuel Macron qualified the presidential election as a “referendum for Europe”, Tuesday evening, during a meeting in Strasbourg, the RN candidate hammered it:
“Frexit is by no means our project”.
And aims to
"break free from the shackles of Brussels"
and reform the European Union from "
inside
".
As for Germany, it notes
“irreconcilable strategic differences”,
in particular on the nuclear question, therefore wishing to stop
“all cooperation with Berlin”
on the military level.
Not leaving the Paris agreements of 2015 to limit global warming, Marine Le Pen keeps her guideline as far as NATO is concerned.
Namely, to leave the integrated command, while remaining in the organization, as France had left between 1966 and 2009. With one objective: not to "submit" to an American protectorate without however giving up mutual aid between member countries.
A vision that opposes that of Emmanuel Macron, who would have a
"limited view of international relations".
And to drive the point home:
"I will restore secret diplomacy because it is the only one that is effective in talkative and open diplomacy."