Presidential in Portugal: Marine Le Pen and André Ventura display a united front
Marine Le Pen, president of the RN, alongside André Ventura, the populist Portuguese presidential candidate, in Lisbon, January 8, 2021 REUTERS - PEDRO NUNES
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Marine le Pen is in Lisbon.
The president of the National Rally (RN) came to support André Ventura, president of the small Chega party.
He is a presidential candidate on June 24 with no hope of winning, but could flirt with the 10% mark.
A feat in a country where the extreme right has been inaudible since the end of the dictatorship.
Basically, however, Marine Le Pen and André Ventura do not have much in common.
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With our special
correspondent in Lisbon,
Anne Soetemondt
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Seeing Marine Le Pen is a symbol for me.
André Ventura would like to confirm his breakthrough from the legislative elections to the
presidential election
.
To appear with Marine Le Pen is therefore for him a nice media stunt two weeks before the election.
"
This shows that there is a European project being built against the European project of Brussels
", continues the candidate.
Speaking of Europe not to speak of what annoys, Marine Le Pen and André Ventura know it, on abortion, the place of religion in society, but also on the cursor of the speech.
The two populist leaders have differences that Marine Le Pen brushes aside.
“
It is precisely because our philosophy is to recognize and respect national specificities that we not only admit them, but we see them as the mark of everyone's freedom.
"
A way also for Marine Le Pen to send a message to Hungarian Viktor Orban whom she would like to get closer to and one of whose advisers is a friend of André Ventura.
A way, finally, to wink at the Portuguese community in France.
More than a million people, and therefore potential voters.
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