AFP 4:16 p.m., March 2, 2022, modified at 4:18 p.m., March 2, 2022

Marine Le Pen called on Wednesday for "emergency measures" and "whatever the cost" for French farmers who risk being particularly victims of price increases linked to the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

The increase in raw materials has serious "consequences on production and their ability to generate margins", underlined the RN presidential candidate.

The consequences of the war in Ukraine invite themselves into the French presidential campaign.

Present at the Agricultural Show, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen wanted to show her support for farmers.

They are "confronted, even before the repercussions of the war in Ukraine, with a very significant increase in raw materials, fuel, fuel oil, gasoline, gas, electricity", fraught with "consequences on the production, prices and their ability to generate margins, she said. Their concern is great that this increase, this inflation, could worsen." 

According to the candidate, it is necessary to quickly put in place “direct emergency aid”, in a “whatever the cost” for agriculture, a sector already strongly weakened during the Covid crisis.

Despite this war which dominates the news, Marine Le Pen wanted to "campaign", explaining that this conflict "shed light on the problems of energy sovereignty and food sovereignty".

For the candidate, it is also necessary to think about the daily life of the French

During her press briefing, she felt that there was "nothing abnormal" in Emmanuel Macron speaking in the evening on Ukraine because he "has this cap on the diplomatic level", and she invited him to "favor the path of diplomacy".

"But he will have to put on his other hat as a presidential candidate because he owes the French a record," she added, calling for a debate with him "before the first round".

Despite the emotion aroused by the war in Ukraine, Marine Le Pen specifies that we must also think about the daily life of the French and provide "answers on the explosion in prices" of fuels and energy, as well as on the insecurity, immigration or employment, she developed.

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"If the President of the Republic, by strategy, tries to go over the answers he owes the French on these subjects, he is making a real mistake and he is disconnected from the strong expectations of the people", he said. she estimated.

Regarding the conflict in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron must speak this Wednesday evening at 8 p.m.

However, he should make no mention of a possible declaration of candidacy for the presidential election.

According to his entourage, it will be a speech exclusively devoted to the war in Ukraine.