Paris (AFP)
Marine Le Pen tried Sunday to mark his difference from his potential competitor in 2022 Eric Zemmour, by highlighting "his greater social sensitivity" and accusing him of neglecting the "end of the month of the French".
"We have undoubtedly differences on the economic and social plan", underlined on BFMTV the candidate of the RN for the presidential one, considering that the polemicist "aligns itself on rather liberal and rather traditional conservative positions".
She cited Eric Zemmour's position on pensions ("at 63, 64, or even, he said a few weeks ago, 67 years"), while she continues to defend retirement at 60.
Ms. Le Pen also criticized him for his "criticism of the weight of our social protection system", but "without saying what he wants to plan".
"He is not very interested, at least if I am to believe his statements, for the end of the month of the French and I have a social sensitivity which is undoubtedly more important", highlighted the far-right candidate .
She recalled her proposal to lower the VAT on gasoline, gas and electricity, "essential products", to 5.5%.
While judging Mr. Zemmour "brilliant", she says she does not see either "his added value" on the question of immigration, "against which (she) wants to fight without weakness but without excess".
Ms. Le Pen also criticized once again the reform of unemployment insurance that she "finds frightfully unfair".
"It's terrifying the philosophy" of this reform: "the government considers that the French are lazy, that they are unemployed because they do not want to work, while they are unemployed because they do not can't, ”she argued.
To achieve "only one billion in savings, we are putting in place a measure that will make people more precarious who already cannot find" a job, lamented the finalist of the 2017 presidential election, who claims to have "only 'only one opponent' in this campaign, Emmanuel Macron.
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