Marine Le Pen continues to standardize her program for the presidential election

Nicolas Beytout, you come back to the column that Marine Le Pen published Monday in the newspaper

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This is an important turning point, in your opinion ...

"There had been, shortly before the 2017 presidential election, a renunciation of the euro. Marine Le Pen had abandoned the grand design of returning to the French franc: too complex and above all too disturbing for a large part of its potential electorate who lived this traditional aspect of the National Front's program as a dizzying leap into the unknown It was, along with other measures and 'reframing' of a rather societal nature, the beginning of what had been called demonization.

This process continues today?

Yes, or rather it adapts.

Marine Le Pen had already started working on her image for some time, even if it means giving a little too much in the forced smile as we saw in her debate against Gerald Darmanin.

In this strategy of 'presidentialization', the objective is now for Marine Le Pen to try to demine one by one the bombs which still figure in the doxa resulting from the National Front.

Three weeks ago, she sent around the subject of the return to the French borders.

Today, it only allows free movement of Europeans in Europe.

It is evolving at the same time on the question of the European Court of Human Rights, this supranational jurisdiction which was hated until then because it was contrary to our sovereignty.

And now she demolishes the subject of France's debt ...

She thus says that "the debt must be repaid", that it is "an essential moral aspect" and a "iron law"

It sounds like Le Maire du Barnier or Le Woerth ... More seriously, this declaration is really a turning point, a step in the attempt to standardize its program.

Objective, reassure the oldest part of the French electorate, traditionally attached to the respect of the commitments of France and usually the most reserved on the economic program of Marine Le Pen.

Another objective: to differentiate himself from Jean-Luc Mélenchon who, on the contrary, proclaims that the debt will never be repaid.

In the race for the protesting electorate, this is certainly a radical way to stand out. 

Isn't such a strategic shift also politically risky?

Yes, of course.

The disappointed of the former National Front will not hesitate to cry treason.

And then, the danger for Marine Le Pen is to lose part of her non-system positioning which allows her to collect a vote of rejection from the political class in power for 40 years (to use terminology very Front National ).

Until then she had a glass ceiling above her.

She has now convinced herself that she can break it.

But for that, to gather broad, it must manage to hold the two ends of a program, standardized on one side and broken on the other.

The glass ceiling has become a wall of glass. "