Le Pen urges Macron not to "erase" the presidential election with Ukraine

Europe 1 with AFP 7:17 p.m., March 5, 2022

Marine Le Pen urged Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, whom she wishes to find in the second round of the presidential election as in 2017, not to "erase" the ballot with the crisis in Ukraine and to "accept the debate of ideas".

She also asked Emmanuel Macron not to "use this crisis to smuggle in a (European) federalist defense agenda", a few days before an EU summit in Versailles. 

"Everything is done to lull public opinion"

"Everything is done to lull public opinion, avoid the confrontation of ideas and projects. (...) Everything is done to try to erase the appointment of April 10 and 24", dates of the first and second of the presidential election, estimated the candidate of the National Rally in front of some 700 people gathered in Aigues-Mortes in the Gard, while the Russian invasion in Ukraine dominates the update.

"The situation, however serious it may be, which makes the President of the Republic an important diplomatic actor, in no way justifies Emmanuel Macron's temptation to escape the demands of an electoral campaign, and the demands of democracy, that of reporting on its balance sheet, that of accepting the debate of ideas”, underlined Marine Le Pen.

Criticizing her letter to the French "smoker and catch-gogo", in which the head of state announced his candidacy on Thursday, she promised to "take stock" and "bring Jupiter back to reality", to the laughter of his supporters, who also repeatedly booed his opponent.

“This presidential campaign should be done without him”

"This presidential campaign should be done without him (...) while France is undergoing a migratory submersion, a security chaos, an unprecedented identity collapse", while "after 5 years of a confusing and perverse 'at the same time ', he administers over the water (...) a country plagued by doubt, discouragement and fear, "she said.

"Revolution was his project" but "we only retained regression, depression, like a five-year term for nothing, finally rather a five-year term for worse", she added.

"For Emmanuel Macron and his friends, immigration is not a problem but a project", she insisted, making the difference between the Ukrainian "war refugees" to whom she wished to "rescue". , and migrants who have recently arrived in the small Spanish enclave of Melilla who come "to settle".

The far-right candidate asked the European Commission in this regard to "stop the sanctions" against Hungary and Poland, in the front line in the reception of Ukrainian refugees.