"I deeply believe that the temperament, the course, the personality of the one that the French will choose are decisive" for the presidential election, said the candidate of the National Rally, recounting her childhood and her career in front of a large fluorescent blue "M".
Faced with 4,000 activists, she spoke of her "father" and former president of the FN (now RN), Jean-Marie Le Pen, whom she expelled from the party in 2015, "caught in the whirlwind of commitments that I saw too rarely " and "a somewhat special family", marked by "political combat", as well as "political violence" at school with "persecutions" which make him "honor today any idea of discrimination". "I measure the injustice, I know the suffering".
The far-right candidate also spoke of the 1976 attack, when she was 8, which hit the family apartment at Villa Poirier, in the 15th arrondissement, where she "brutally entered the world of adults “, as well as the “ultra-mediatized divorce” of his parents.
"They teach you these ordeals", she underlined, returning to her career as a lawyer and mother of three children "in one year", whom she raised alone "a few years".
"The time I didn't spend with them, I still spent on them."
"I learned a lot, I groped, I sometimes failed, I fell" but "I always got up", she argued, saying she was "ready" for the "supreme function ", without fearing "neither betrayal, nor ambushes, nor maneuvers".
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