Rested, and always quick to hit her opponents.
Fifteen days after her defeat in the presidential election, Marine Le Pen on Sunday launched her campaign for the legislative elections in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), where she is a candidate for re-election, targeting Jean-Luc Mélenchon, described as " fou du roi ”, for having, according to her, favored the re-election of Emmanuel Macron.
"The fable of Jean-Luc Mélenchon opposing Emmanuel Macron, we may stop now ... It lasted 15 days, it made everyone laugh," she said on her arrival in this municipality RN , in the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais, where she has been elected to parliament since 2017.
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“He plays the fools of the king, he overplays the insolence with regard to the president”, launched the ex-candidate RN for the presidential election.
But "the reality is that Jean-Luc Mélenchon had Emmanuel Macron elected" by asking his voters not to vote for her, she said.
“It absolutely discredits him to be able to put himself in the position of the opponent.
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Countering Emmanuel Macron's social policy
Ms. Le Pen also made fun of the leader of La France Insoumise, who has been trying in recent weeks to lead the rally on the left.
“To be able to win a legislative, he would have to agree to run, already.
It would be a good start, ”she quipped, Mr. Mélenchon having announced that he himself would probably not be a candidate.
The unfortunate candidate for the presidential election took a walk in the city market on Sunday and multiplied the selfies, before participating in a ceremony on May 8.
She said she hoped that the RN would enter "in force in the National Assembly" to counter "the social policy that Emmanuel Macron wants to implement".
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“We will also fight against laxity, the one we have seen at work for 5 years in terms of insecurity, immigration, which is one of the points where the alliance between Mélenchon and Macron is perhaps the most dangerous. “, she said, ensuring that there will be RN candidates “absolutely everywhere”.
"Peace, which we believe to be immutable and definitive, is not"
The far-right elected official laid a wreath at the cemetery during her visit for the May 8 ceremony alongside the RN mayor of the town, Steeve Briois.
“After the tragic 20th century, here arises, 77 years later, the hideous sounds of war in Europe, these images of destruction and desolation on air, the floods of tears and blood before our eyes, the torrent millions of refugees on our doorstep,” she said in her speech.
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“Peace, which we believe to be immutable and definitive, is not (…) The aggression of which Ukraine has been the victim proves to us (…) the need for all countries to guarantee the means of their own national defense added the one who was accused by her opponents of complacency with Putin's Russia during the presidential campaign.
Ms. Le Pen will notably face in her constituency Marine Tondelier (EELV), opposition municipal councilor in Hénin-Beaumont, invested by the “New popular ecological and social union” (Nupes).
She was spokesperson for the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot.
