Paris (AFP)
Marine Le Pen, who did not stand for regional elections in Hauts-de-France, will nonetheless be a candidate in the departmental elections in June in her stronghold Hénin-Beaumont, in Pas-de-Calais, where she is already a Member of Parliament. , in the name of "proximity".
"My political fight is waged daily by your side, as close as possible to you: this is why I will participate in the battle of the departmental elections in the canton of Hénin-Beaumont 2 with Steeve Briois", RN mayor of the city , announced on Twitter the candidate for the Elysee Palace and president of the National Rally.
"Several presidential candidates before me had perceived this local attachment - this election in a canton - as the key to understanding a country they were preparing to lead", explains Marine Le Pen in an attached video to his tweet.
"In fact, the disconnection with the depths of the country has ended up creating leaders above ground, surprised by the events they do not see coming, stunned by the bubbling that their inability to empathize causes. The crisis of the yellow vests is the most damning observation, "said the candidate, in an implicit criticism of Emmanuel Macron.
"At a time of great uprooting, at a time of the evanescence of elusive powers, I believe in proximity, that of men and that of decisions, that of reflections and that of actions," she argues.
"It is from this land of France, this black soil of the coal of our mines, so bathed in sweat, tears and blood that in 2007 the national leap sprang up", concludes the deputy, who presented herself for the first time in Pas-de-Calais in the legislative elections of 2007.
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