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French presidential: Marine Le Pen is already preparing the second round
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Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate of the National Rally (formerly National Front), during a meeting in Stiring-Wendel in northeastern France, April 1, 2022. © JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP
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Nine days before the first round of the presidential election, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen was this Friday, April 1 in Stiring-Wandel, in Moselle (east), for a meeting in front of several hundred people.
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The closer the first round approaches, the more the marinist sympathizers smile.
“
Ah yes, we are confident.
“Given at 20% in the first round and almost neck and neck in the second against Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen has never risen so high against the outgoing president.
So much so that the candidate is now attacking the rally on the evening of the first round.
"
I know that there is (...) a patriotic right which has at heart, above all and especially before the exorbitant privileges of a few, the love of its compatriots and the interest of the nation
", has she thus launched in front of nearly a thousand activists gathered in Stiring-Wendel (Moselle), a small working-class town of 12,300 inhabitants which had given her the winner in 2017 against Emmanuel Macron, with nearly 52% of the voice.
A call from the foot to the conservative right, the voters of Valérie Pécresse or Eric Zemmour, analyzes our special correspondent,
Julien Chavanne
.
But also an outstretched hand to the working classes tempted by Jean-Luc Mélenchon: "
I know that there is also a patriotic left, aware of the protective nature of the nation, convinced of the importance of peaceful secularism because it is respected
".
The "
at the same time
nationalist version of Marine Le Pen.
“
Whatever the left, whatever the right, I would not be the president of one part of the people against the other, but the president of all the French, the president of French unity.
»
Social rights reserved for “French people”
Marine Le Pen castigated socialism which "
has not been socialism for a long time, but welfare
", and a Socialist Party which "
has lost the confidence first of the workers, then of the lower classes, then of all the world
”.
She defended the "
social rights (which) are the only goods of those who do not have them
", assuming to reserve them for the "
French
".
Marine Le Pen wants to include in the Constitution the "national priority", which will exclude foreigners from certain social benefits.
The RN candidate defended a “
regular
” project, promising “
the stop
” of “anarchic immigration
which overwhelms and distorts our neighborhoods
”, and a “
daily
” project by rolling out its proposals on purchasing power.
"
In the France of Emmanuel Macron, the only ones who seem to be making profits, and big profits, are not the French, they are the American consulting firms
", she launched, referring to the controversy surrounding the McKinsey firm.
Marine Le Pen is betting on a “useful vote” against Emmanuel Macron, more confident than ever: “
We are going to win
”.
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