France: Marine Le Pen begins 2021 with the 2022 presidential election in the sights
The president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen on May 1, 2020 in Paris (illustrative image).
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Marine Le Pen presented her wishes to the press on Monday morning.
The opportunity for the president of the RN to present herself in a dynamic way at the beginning of the year with always the same objective: the presidential 2022.
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During her greetings to the press, the 2022 presidential candidate has in any case presented a new participatory website entitled Mlavenir.fr, with an M for Marine Le Pen.
“
These suggestions will be taken into account and eventually, as a presidential candidate, I will keep these ideas to integrate them into my project,
” she explains.
A way also for the president of the RN to play politics differently at a time when everything is according to her own words "crushed" by the health crisis and today the prospect
of a third confinement
which would be according to her a new government failure .
"
If we find ourselves in the situation of having to relive a confinement, it is because we missed the rest,
" she said.
"We" is of course Emmanuel Macron in front of whom Marine Le Pen is given the lead in the first round of the presidential election.
According to a Harris Interactive poll, she would collect around 26% of the vote against around 23% for the outgoing president.
"
I am convinced that the French have understood that the two main political options are the choice between globalism and the nation
", notably affirmed the head of the French far right.
A photograph of opinion to be taken with caution, however, because one year with the 2017 election, Marine Le Pen was already given the lead in voting intentions in the first round, she lost in the second with more than 25 points of difference.
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