Ten months before the presidential election, the patron of the National Rally warns: "We will not return to the National Front", said Marine Le Pen on Sunday, closing in Perpignan the congress of the National Rally that she wished to continue to "open to all political forces ”and by inviting its activists to“ seek victory ”in 2022.

“We will not go back.

With all due respect for our own history, we will not return to the National Front, ”declared the president of the National Rally, reelected for a fourth term at the head of the party formerly chaired by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, which it renamed in 2018.

"We must continue to open ourselves to all political forces"

"We have been able to free ourselves from a political immaturity that is hardly compatible with national ambitions and give our movement the qualities necessary for a governing party," said Marine Le Pen, emphasizing the re-election of the ten RN mayors. last year, but which was accompanied by the loss of 44% of elected officials.

"Marine president" chanted several times the thousand activists gathered at the convention center of Perpignan.

"We must (...) not lock ourselves in postures but continue to open ourselves to all political forces, associations or civil society and more generally to all French people who wish not to remain spectators", added the head of the RN, denouncing the "ease of excesses" or "belligerent attitudes".

A picnic in Zemmour

Without mentioning the failure of her party in recent regional events, the far-right leader said she wanted to "implement a government of national unity around a civil peace project" and be the candidate for "concrete solutions" because "There is no possible happiness if the country fades away or worse collapses", in an allusion to the potential candidate in 2022 Eric Zemmour whose "belief in civil war" she contests.

She praised the fact that "(her) analysis was now almost unanimously shared".

But "we need more than ever to take the next step" and "transform this ideological victory into an electoral victory," said the candidate for the Elysee.

And "a victory against a whole coalition system is built, is constructed, is conquered and this victory, we will seek it", she insisted.

"We will never put one knee to the ground," she concluded, referring to the upcoming electoral battle and to a gesture that has become the symbol of opposition to racial discrimination.

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