National rally: Two recruits from Marine Le Pen create the
Localist
Party -
Louise MERESSE / SIPA
Two recruits from Marine Le Pen during the 2019 European elections will create the Localist Party, to develop themes on ecology, identity or territories, in “complement” of the National Gathering, traditionally more centralizing.
The MEP elected with the support of RN Hervé Juvin, inspirer of the party on civilizational ecology, and his parliamentary assistant, former LFI regional advisor, Andrea Kotarac, will launch this movement in January, AFP learned from the two officials , confirming information published Tuesday by
Le Parisien
and
Le Figaro
.
"The renewal of localism"
Hervé Juvin and Andrea Kotarac also publish a manifesto called “Chez nous!
", Close to the identity slogan sometimes heard in the meetings of the RN" We are at home!
".
Believing that the "French no longer have a say" in the face of a "Parisian technocracy above ground" and have a "feeling of dispossession and anger", the two officials want to promote "a decision as close as possible to the territories, the 'authentic ecology or short circuits'.
They ensure that "the renewal of localism and identities is a factor of integration".
"" Home! "
it's the opposite of living alone with your screen, it's together at the local café, at the end of school or at the football match, ”argues Hervé Juvin.
Not "against the RN, but next"
Their initiative is not directed "against the RN but alongside, in addition" to the party, which Marine Le Pen, candidate for the Elysee, is herself considering leaving for the presidential campaign.
The RN, which is culturally "very demanding on sovereign functions, on centralization and verticality, needs to transform its vision of power by integrating this need for horizontality and local differentiation", supports the MEP, who does not does not have his card at the RN.
"It is because we are proud of the small homeland", that is to say the village or the region, "that we can defend the great homeland", adds Andrea Kotarac, who defends a "strengthening of 'ideas, of credibility' on artificial intelligence, subsidiarity, Europe or even social justice 'that the RN or other parties do not carry enough'.
They informed about their initiative Marine Le Pen which, when questioned, welcomes "a partner approach which gives the essential concept of localism a welcome autonomy and visibility".
As for the role of this structure for the presidential election, it is Marine Le Pen "who will decide", according to Andrea Kotarac.
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