"The brutality that emanates from Eric Zemmour's proposals and its mono-thematic aspect (Editor's note: on immigration) shows that we have, as far as we are concerned, a complete, worked, precise and immediately applicable project, with teams to wear it. So it's true that in a mirror, somewhere it does us a service, "admitted Marine Le Pen, traveling for two days in Marseille.

"I think that the analysis consisting in saying + it refocuses me and allows a new quality of listening to the project which is mine, rid of a priori a little easy that it attracts to itself +, the analysis consisting in saying that he can represent a reserve of votes (Editor's note: for the second round) more important than that of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in the last presidential election (Editor's note: when the candidate of Debout France had rallied to her), are certainly elements to be taken into account, ”she added.

The president of the National Gathering, Marine Le Pen, campaigning in Marseille on November 19, 2021 Nicolas TUCAT AFP

For the deputy of Pas-de-Calais, Eric Zemmour, with whom she says she never had "very close relations", "remobilizes the left" with "his excesses": "He has an interest in the return of the left cleavage- right. But that is also to create the republican front, "underlined the RN presidential candidate.

And if at the RN "we have abandoned brutalities (of language, nldr) for more than ten years now, it is out of conviction, because I do not recognize myself in it, but also because this glass ceiling linked to the sur -Mobilization of the left in front of us is a major drawback, ”she explained.

The former president of the RN warned Eric Zemmour in passing: "From the moment he is a candidate, he will become a competitor, and I will not refrain from saying what I think and pointing out our differences , as it does ".

After accompanying a police patrol on Friday in the northern districts of the city, where she explained that she wanted to "wage war on drug trafficking", the RN candidate went to a market in Plan-de-Cuques on Saturday (Bouches -du-Rhône) before returning to Marseille to meet activists, visit the gastronomy and winegrowers fair and finally the Santons Fair in the Old Port, where she bought a santon bearing the effigy of Professor Raoult.

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