Presidential: in Gironde, Marine Le Pen criticizes environmentalists, these "Taliban of the greenery"

Victor Chabert with AFP 11:10 a.m., March 26, 2022, modified at 11:11 a.m., March 26, 2022

Two weeks before the first round of the presidential election, Marine Le Pen was in Gironde on Friday, in Saint-Martin-Lacaussade.

700 people came to listen to his plea for rurality.

In the packed village hall of this village about fifty kilometers from Bordeaux, in the middle of wineries near the Gironde estuary, Marine Le Pen defended her de-metropolisation project.

In this town, she came first in the first round of the 2017 presidential election, with 24.24% of the vote against 22.12% for Emmanuel Macron.

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The candidate denounced the territorial divide, responsible according to her for a worsening of the social divide, then she attacked the president-candidate Emmanuel Macron head-on.

“Between Emmanuel Macron and us, it is the choice between the power of money which benefits a few, and the purchasing power which benefits everyone,” she began.

"And never forget my friends, the disturbing sentence pronounced by Emmanuel Macron a few months ago: 'I do not forbid myself anything.'

That, it is certain that in terms of social destruction, nothing will be forbidden“, she lambasted. 

The "Green Taliban"

Marine Le Pen also criticized the energy transition and environmentalists, these "Taliban of the greenery" and defended farmers and motorists, whom she intends to support with measures in favor of purchasing power and food sovereignty.

"I will stop racketeering (the French) with unfair taxes and I will stop imposing phony transitions reserved for the most privileged that the radical ecologists seek to impose on us, these 'greenery Taliban' who have also been squatting our agriculture for years. “, said the candidate of the National Rally.

Other proposals: the "relocation of the automobile industry" and again the "nationalization of the highways".

Still criticizing "the ban on thermal and hybrid cars by 2035" by the European Union, the candidate said that she would return to the "inane measures" planning to "prohibit access to all major cities vehicles that are too old".

Second in the polls

Marine Le Pen, who is consolidating her second place in the polls, plays the proximity card by favoring small meetings.

Estimated at around 20% in the latest polls, the National Rally candidate declared that no vote should be missing, neither in abstention nor in division, before calling on her voters to go to the polls.