"They hope for a lot. Poor Marion has been transformed into a kind of lifeline for a campaign that is collapsing in on itself," said the RN candidate during a press briefing on the sidelines of the campaign. a trip to the Gard.
"It's a shame because she deserves better than that," she said.
The far-right candidate also said she did not "even understand" the words of Eric Zemmour, who said Friday that the war in Ulkraine "diverted attention from major issues for France", while this conflict, according to Mrs. Le Pen, "has brought out essential subjects (...), the subject of our food independence" and "our energy independence".
"We have to deal with it (war) but we have to continue, which we are doing, by the way, to talk about all the subjects of French daily life", insisted the candidate who made purchasing power a focus of his campaign.
Marine Le Pen had previously taken a long walk on the beach of Boucanet in Grau-du-Roi to admire herdsmen from Camargue who took bulls on their horses to the arenas.
She praised this local "tradition" and defended the independents, these "little ones (who) are more and more in difficulty", in a "world made for the big ones and by the big ones".
Asked on the beach by a retiree, Nadia, who asked her if it was "normal for him (Putin) to kill a lot" in Ukraine, she replied that we had to "keep hope" to "bring back to the reason" the Russian president, who had received it during the presidential election in 2017. "We can already welcome women and children who are fleeing" war, "the important thing is to obtain peace", has she added.
During the press briefing, Marine Le Pen reiterated her opposition to the delivery of arms to Ukraine, carried out in particular by France, and that it was necessary to "bet everything" on diplomacy.
She added that it was also necessary "to think about sanctions" but that they should not lead to the "economic collapse" of France.
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