Europe 1 with AFP 11:37 a.m., April 12, 2022
Marine Le Pen, in the second round presidential campaign against Emmanuel Macron, released a new very sober poster on Tuesday showing her sitting with her hands resting on a desk like her opponent, where we can read "for all French people".
Marine Le Pen, in the second round presidential campaign against Emmanuel Macron, released a new very sober poster on Tuesday showing her sitting with her hands resting on a desk like her opponent, where we can read "for all French people".
France has never been so fractured, so divided.
The time for national unity has come.
I want to govern with all French people, for all French people.
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– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) April 12, 2022
In front of an all-white wall where you can see a few thin mouldings, the candidate of the National Rally poses all smiles, dressed in a dark suit, with no object or window behind her.
The far-right contender for the Elysée is "in function, not in fiction, without all the symbols a little pipeau around", commented his entourage to BFMTV, which unveiled this poster.
Sobriety of the poster
It is a "nod to the official photo" of the current President of the Republic.
Marine Le Pen is "ready to take her place and ready in terms of the program," a close friend of the candidate told AFP.
By this slogan, the candidate means "that she puts herself at the service of all French people" in the name of "national union", adds the same source.
"The sobriety of the poster is for a five-year term which will be at the service of the French, not to serve itself".
The same photo will be printed on the professions of faith that voters will receive at home.
It recalls the official portrait of Emmanuel Macron with his hands resting on his desk, in front of a window overlooking the Elysée gardens, framed by the French and European flags.
"Goodbye Jupiter, Hello Marine"
Marine Le Pen wishes for her part, if she is elected, to remove the flag of the European Union from her official photo, as from the pediments of schools.
She explained that she was "not intended to be the governor of a European region".
"Gather the French, help the most fragile, assume who we are. Goodbye Jupiter, hello Marine", commented, by publishing this poster, Laurent Jacobelli, spokesperson, on his Twitter account.
"Because our country deserves unity, respect, harmony," also wrote MP Sébastien Chenu, also spokesperson.