Fréjus (AFP)

"French, wake up!": It is with this slogan that Marine Le Pen intends to campaign on insecurity on Sunday in Fréjus (Var), a theme that is dear to her and allows her to crush the right, very offensive on the subject, to occupy all the political space in front of Emmanuel Macron.

Left very early, in January, in the race for the Elysee Palace, the president of the National Gathering holds her re-entry speech at 3:00 p.m. in front of an audience reduced to elected officials and the press, coronavirus requires.

Marine Le Pen welcomed on Saturday evening a "real awareness of the wildness" of society, using a controversial term that she is used to using, taken up this summer by the Minister of Interior Gérald Darmanin and by several leaders of the right.

The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti had denounced in this regard a "populist escalation", explaining that France was "not a cut-throat".

But the far-right leader sends back to back the right and the government, accusing the Republicans, and in particular Nicolas Sarkozy, of having "done nothing" when they were in power and lambasting a government without "vision" on delinquency and criminality.

"The ideological battle has been won for years. What we expect is political victory," said Marine Le Pen on Saturday.

- Dividends -

The candidate for the Elysée will therefore not need to add more semantically, her advisor Philippe Olivier even promising a "moderate" tone.

The 2017 presidential finalist considers herself more legitimate and identified on the demand for order than the Republicans, mocking Nicolas Sarkozy's 2005 promise to clean up "the scum" at the "Kärcher".

She hopes to win the electoral dividends of an LR party in the process of "imploding", citing the call of the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi to reach an agreement with Emmanuel Macron for 2022 and the difficulties of the right to find a candidate.

She promised in this regard to "remove certain ambiguities" addressed to voters on the right when they "believe that the RN's economic program is the same" as that of rebellious France, even if she still defends retirement at 60 years with 40 annuities.

The head of the RN also wants to "wake up" the French on the health crisis - on which she published a Black Book - and economic.

She pointed out Saturday "huge holes" in the recovery plan, deeming "derisory" the place given to relocations and insufficient measures in favor of VSEs-SMEs.

- On the trail -

Marine Le Pen intends to occupy all the political space to face Emmanuel Macron again in 2022, even if the French are 68% not to wish this duel, considering 73% that the right should present a candidate, according to Ifop .

She also intends to "wake up" her troops, after disappointing municipal elections for her party, and re-mobilize them for the senatorial, departmental and regional elections to come.

But the head of the RN, like the number 2 of the party Jordan Bardella, will not appear at the regional.

She is still "thinking" of leaving the reins of the party to devote herself to the presidential election.

She is already following Emmanuel Macron on the trail, celebrating like him, in a video with presidential accents, the 150th anniversary of the Republic on Friday.

If his boss is already on his way to 2022, the RN does not show him the same momentum as before the last presidential election, according to the admission of several elected officials.

The party, which plans to move to Paris in smaller premises, "has become skeletal", with declining membership, and there is "deep unease on the ground", reports one of them, especially since the sidelining in August of several members of the national investiture commission, many close to the former frontist MP Marion Maréchal.

Yet "we must unite otherwise we give the impression of a party that is shrinking," argues another.

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