Paris (AFP)
The former president of the National Front (now National Rally) Jean-Marie Le Pen suggested Thursday to his daughter Marine Le Pen, president of the party and candidate for the Elysee, not to "confuse" the first and the second round of the presidential election.
"What is essential for Marine is not to confuse the first and the second round," said the man who chaired the party for nearly 40 years, in his video logbook.
"Marine must not at all give in to this centrist attraction before the second round," said Jean-Marie Le Pen, in an allusion to his daughter's more temperate positions on certain subjects.
"In the first round, we must bring together all the French who are legitimately fed up with the country's decadence, its slide towards the precipice, the mortal danger of immigration which is not controlled, which is not prohibited", he adds.
Marine Le Pen, credited in the second round of the ballot according to several polls, measures or even "normalizes" her speech in view of the presidential election, by making several reversals, at the risk of destabilizing her electorate fond of radicalism.
In particular, it has abandoned the idea of leaving France from the EU and the euro (Frexit) and no longer plans to suspend the Schengen free movement agreements.
Jean-Marie Le Pen does not rule out going to the RN congress scheduled for early July in Perpignan.
"The situation is so serious (…) that it requires the meeting of all the goodwill", he says.
"And we cannot avoid taking a stand when we have been responsible and remain so intellectually speaking," added the co-founder of the far-right party, expelled from the party in 2015 for new controversial remarks on the Holocaust.
Jean-Marie Le Pen had threatened to come to the previous Lille congress in March 2018, before giving up.
He had lost at this congress his function of honorary president of the movement, in accordance with new statutes.
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