The first time Marine Le Pen was received at Matignon by Élisabeth Borne, then Prime Minister, she did not expect to hear such an offensive speech on the unemployed: “I was surprised by this
right-wing
speech …” The head of the RN, a follower of “neither right nor left” has never felt or claimed to be “right”.
But his party knows that it is from the reserves of this electorate – older, more affluent than its own base – that it must draw in order to hope to win in 2027. The European elections which are arriving are an opportunity to address them with hard glances.
The holding of “General States of Immigration” this Tuesday at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris is the latest illustration of this.
The reference to the General States of Immigration of the RPR of 1990 is not only implicit but loudly claimed by the RN.
During this event organized in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), to which Éric Zemmour had also explicitly referred during the launch of his 2022 presidential campaign, Alain Juppé's party had formulated proposals of unprecedented harshness in matters of migration : closing borders, reserving certain services for nationals only, removing the automaticity of land law and family reunification, affirming the “incompatibility” of Islam and the laws of the Republic… So many proposals that would have betrayed the right and of which the RN would today be the legatee.
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