Europe 1 with AFP 07:06, March 25, 2022

The RN candidate for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, reached out Thursday evening to Éric Zemmour's voters for the second round.

She indeed called them patriots and felt that their choice should be on her and not on Emmanuel Macron, who is "a globalist".

Marine Le Pen reached out Thursday evening to voters of her far-right rival Eric Zemmour, "patriots", in view of the second round of the presidential election, which she plans to access.

Asked about M6 about a possible outstretched hand to Éric Zemmour himself, the RN candidate replied: "He absolutely does not want it".

“No one owns their voters”

But "no one owns their voters" and "I wish if I am in the second round that they join us", she continued.

Because "I know they are patriots and at some point, between Emmanuel Macron who is a globalist and Marine Le Pen who is a patriot, I believe that the choice must be made".

Asked about her differences with the Reconquest candidate, Marine Le Pen replied that in her eyes, Éric Zemmour "wages a form of religious war against Islam" while she herself "wages a war against Islamist totalitarian ideology".

"He did not invent much, there is not much added value in his project" and "I think that a number of his proposals are caricatured and therefore a lot of people have realized that mine was all in all very reasonable”, further developed the candidate.

Mélenchon not "able to climb to the second round"

Éric Zemmour "contributed to opening the eyes of the French to the fact that my project was a serious, credible project and that it had neither provocations nor excesses", recognized the far-right candidate, who watered down her proposals in the name of "de-demonization" while his rival opted for radicalism.

On CNews, Marine Le Pen estimated that in the event of a duel with Emmanuel Macron in the second round, it "will absolutely not benefit (from) the Republican front".

"There are tens of millions of French people who have suffered so much (...) that they are not ready (...) to come and save Emmanuel Macron" and to "give him back the possibility of aggravating the policy that 'he has already carried out,' she argued.

As for the candidate of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he "can embody the useful vote on the left" but he is not "able to climb to the second round", according to her, because his project is "not serious , not credible": he wants to "welcome the whole earth" and "pour into racialism", she still estimated.