Paris (AFP)

Marine Le Pen said Thursday that Donald Trump had "not measured the impact of his remarks on a part" of his supporters who sowed chaos in Washington, and recognized for the first time the victory of Joe Biden as president the United States.

"Obviously he (Donald Trump) did not measure the impact of his remarks on some of these people who have been exacerbated by the defeat," said on France 2 the president of the National Rally and candidate for the French presidential election in 2022.

The far-right leader felt that we had "the right to challenge an election in court" but that, "from the moment the certification of the votes is carried out, there is no difficulty, for me and for anyone else, to admit that Mr. Biden is President of the United States. "

Marine Le Pen had not until now recognized the victory of Joe Biden, invoking the legal appeals launched in the United States by the supporters of Donald Trump against an alleged "fraud" in this ballot.

The president of the RN had not relayed the accusations of fraud but several officials of her party had echoed them, questioning the legitimacy of the poll.

Several politicians, on the right and on the left, have criticized him for his support for Donald Trump.

"It is a political fault" not to have recognized the victory of Joe Biden, estimated on BFMTV and RMC the leader of senators LR Bruno Retailleau.

"Donald Trump has never been a model for me, a source of inspiration. Those for whom he is in France should think twice," said on franceinfo the ex-LR president of the Ile-de-France region. de-France, Valérie Pécresse, citing Marine Le Pen.

LREM MEP Stéphane Séjourné, close to Emmanuel Macron, described in a tweet on Wednesday as an “arsonist” Marine Le Pen, who said in November that she “absolutely did not” recognize Joe Biden's victory.

EELV MEP Yannick Jadot accused the RN and its president of "sharing the delirium of their mentor and model Donald Trump", and LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon asked them "to withdraw their support for Trump", seeing in the violence at the Capitol "an attempted putsch of the extreme right".

Marine Le Pen said for her part "extremely shocked by (the) images of violence" in Washington, where pro-Trump insurgents have entered the buildings of the US Congress.

"In a democracy, we must obviously defend the right to protest, the right to demonstrate, but peacefully."

She assured that her party had "lived victories and defeats" and had "always accepted them with a lot of serenity and a lot of respect for the democratic process".

The candidate for the Elysée wanted that President Emmanuel Macron, who called for "not to give in" to the "violence of a few who want to question" democracy, not to have "the temptation to importing into France the worst of what is done in the United States, that is to say the division ".

Marine Le Pen also spoke of "a real questioning" in the face of the temporary suspension by Twitter and Facebook of Donald Trump's account.

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