Frejus (AFP)

The President of the National Marine Rally Le Pen launches on Sunday its activists, gathered in conquered land in Frejus (Var), in the battle of the Municipalities attacking front Emmanuel Macron, already with the presidential 2022 in sight.

The Head of State "is already in the presidential campaign. (...) We will not let him campaign alone," slipped Saturday to the press the president of the RN, judged as the party that best embodies the opposition to Emmanuel Macron, according to an Elabe poll released Wednesday.

The municipal in March 2020, then the departmental and regional in 2021, "they are carabiners fixed on the wall to climb to the final goal," the Elysee in 2022, according to Marine Le Pen, which will make a speech Sunday.

If the far-right party emerged victorious from the European elections at the end of May, the municipal ballot will however be less favorable. The head of the RN is also "not sure to have more lists" in 2014 but ensures that there will be "more lists with potential winners."

It is especially for the RN to establish itself more, by irrigating around the ten cities already conquered, in its strongholds of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and around the Mediterranean.

The RN relies on the opening of its lists to personalities outside the party, as in Paris where it will support an enarque or Carpentras (Vaucluse), where the first place goes to a retired general.

- Call for young people -

Marine Le Pen's former companion, Louis Aliot, who made public their separation this week, is without RN logo in Perpignan to promote a "local gathering".

Marine Le Pen also relies on the collapse of the Republicans. In this respect, she castigates labels that "waltz" to make her party a "true foundation of solidity and certainty".

David Rachline, elected only 26-year-old mayor of Frejus (53,000 inhabitants), the largest city held by the RN, called on the youth of his party to run for the municipal "to put everything back flat" in the communes: strengthen the security and reduce expenses, including those dedicated to associations "which are useless (...), under the pretext of promoting, for example, the living-together".

The head of the RN has once again distinguished from her bulky niece Marion Maréchal, star guest of a "convention of the right" organized by his relatives on 28 September.

"I am not in a strategy of union rights (supported by Marion Maréchal, Ed) but of national unity," said Marine Le Pen, who also finds his niece "may be a little young" to represent the RN in 2022.

- Tensions -

Aunt and niece do not hear the same music either in their opposition to the enlargement of the PMA. Marion Maréchal will go to protest on October 6th but not Marine Le Pen.

Their common point remains to prepare the alternation Emmanuel Macron, which is not finished with the "volcanic eruptions" type "yellow vests", according to Marine Le Pen.

The presidential finalist in 2017 "does not believe" either that the head of state will have "the courage to tackle immigration", which will be the subject of a debate in the Assembly where it is "not sure to come".

Marine Le Pen, on the other hand, will find it difficult to boast, as in 2018, the ability to govern its allies in Europe, like the Austrian FPÖ and the Italian League, which are no longer in power.

The return of the RN was marked by tensions with the press. The party withdrew on Saturday, before changing after protests, its accreditation to a journalist Liberation after the broadcast by the daily a portrait of David Rachline. The journalists of Mediapart and the program Quotidien are still banned from entering the RN events since 2012.

The party has also been overtaken by the case of its allegedly fictitious jobs in the European Parliament, in which its former president Jean-Marie Le Pen was indicted Friday for "embezzlement of public funds."

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