During a meeting, Marine Le Pen's former right-hand man said he wanted to "fight for the impoverished".
President Patriotes Florian Philippot on Sunday invited the "yellow vests" to join his list for the European elections, saying their "revolt" should "go much further than the Elysee" and also fight the EU, which "kill France".
During a campaign launch meeting in Paris, Marine Le Pen's former right-hand man announced his "decision in (a) spirit of gathering to propose to 'yellow vests' eager to commit to coming on (the) list "of his party, offering them ten places. The party, founded in September 2017, is credited with 2% of voting intentions while the list will be known in April, according to his entourage.
"Everyone feels that the EU is blocking us" . During this meeting, Florian Philippot announced the support of a former head of the list of Debout France in the Great East in 2014, Laure Ferrari. Supporter of an exit from France of the EU ("Frexit"), he declared himself eager to fight for those who are impoverished, against all the inequalities and all the injustices, and to (return) French people the power by a true democracy ", to which it opposed" its absolute antithesis: the European Union ". "Everyone feels good, even those who do not want to take the step of Frexit, that the EU is blocking us, that the EU is hurting us, that the EU is pushing us back," he said.
"The challenge is, very clearly, (...) the revolt against Macron", but "beyond the man himself, beyond the party itself, is the stranglehold the European Union on France that must be denounced, "he said. "The march of men and women in revolt must go much further than the Elysee or the National Assembly, it must go to Brussels" because "'it is in Brussels that we must go the heart of the evil that kills France, "he said.