Fréjus (AFP)
The presidential election will be "a choice of civilization," said Marine Le Pen on Sunday, in Fréjus (Var), in a back-to-school speech with identity accents, an allusion to the polemicist and potential candidate Eric Zemmour, by being the lawyer of "freedoms" to live "like the French".
The presidential election in 2022 "will not only be a choice of society, as the previous polls have been able to be, it will be a choice of civilization", declared the candidate for the Elysee and president of the RN, in front of some 900 militants gathered in the city's Roman theater, which regularly chanted "Marine president".
"There will be only two alternatives" in 2022, "either the dilution of France by deconstruction and (migratory) submersion, or the salutary leap that will bring France into the third millennium around the idea of Nation", added Ms. Le Pen, in an allusion to the theory of the "great replacement" (of the European population by an immigrant population) praised by Mr. Zemmour but of which she does not share the conspiratorial aspect.
"We come to a crossroads where one way leads to the abyss and the other to the top," said the candidate who disagrees with the "pessimism" of Eric Zemmour.
Marine Le Pen in front of the militants of the National Rally on September 12, 2021 in Fréjus (Var) Valery HACHE AFP
"In France, the French have the right to live like French people. Delinquents will be put out of harm's way, French delinquents in prison, foreigners on the plane," she said, also promising a draft law on immigration, which she will present in early October and will be submitted to a referendum if she is elected to the Elysee Palace.
Showing herself as the "president of French freedoms", her campaign slogan, she proposed "free trains" for students and young workers, outside of rush hour.
Marine Le Pen attacked the health pass, "disproportionate attack on freedom", even if we "are not against vaccination" against Covid-19.
She also castigated the "dictatorship" of the European Union by promising to "engrave" in the Constitution, after referendum, the superiority of French law over international law.
"International decisions contrary to a constitutional principle will simply remain unenforced."
Lashing out at the "deafening silence of so-called feminists", a frequent target of Eric Zemmour, she promised to free women from the "obscurantist yoke" of the "Taliban from within", proposing that those convicted of sexist outrages be registered in the criminal and sex offender register.
Marine Le Pen then gave the floor to the number two of the party Jordan Bardella who takes over on Monday, the day of his 26th birthday, the reins of the party during the presidential campaign.
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella in front of the activists of the National Rally on September 12, 2021 in Fréjus (Var) Valery HACHE AFP
The future boss of the far-right party invited the activists, still stunned by the failure of the regional, to "roll up their sleeves" for the presidential election, and attacked the political opponents of Marine Le Pen head-on.
He especially criticized Emmanuel Macron, "a man from nowhere who leads nowhere", "who promised a revolution and did not carry out a single one of the reforms".
He also attacked Anne Hidalgo, who announced Sunday her presidential candidacy, which "transformed the districts of our capital into wasteland", and environmentalists who "support Islamism" and a "migratory submersion unlimited ".
He mocked the Republicans, a "dead star", "without a backbone", whose "ego jousts" will end with the rallying of Xavier Bertrand to Emmanuel Macron "at 8:01 pm on the evening of the first round", inviting among them "the patriots and the Bonapartists" to join the RN.
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