The National Rally candidate for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, decided to take the lead on Saturday, March 5. On the eve of the very likely rallying of his niece, Marion Maréchal, to Eric Zemmour, Mme Le Pen preferred to criticize in advance the direction taken by the campaign of his direct competitor on the far right.
“Poor Marion is being turned into a sort of lifeline of a campaign that is collapsing in on itself”she said during a press briefing on the sidelines of a trip to Grau-du-Roi, in the Gard. “It’s a shame because she deserves better than that”also ruled Marine Le Pen.
Marion Maréchal must appear publicly for the first time in companion of the far-right candidate during a meeting of the latter in Toulon, Sunday followingnoon. At the end of January, the former National Front MP confessed to the Figaro “lean” for Eric Zemmour. “It’s brutal, it’s violent, it’s difficult for me”reacted Marine Le Pen.
A “world made for the big guys and by the big guys”
Saturday, M.me Le Pen also said that she “didn’t even understand” the words of Eric Zemmour, who said on Friday that the war in Ukraine “diverted attention from major issues for France”while this conflict, according to her, “has raised issues (…) essentials, the subject of our food independence” and of “our energy independence”.
Visiting the International Agricultural Show in Paris on Friday, Eric Zemmour considered that “geostrategically, we are sucked towards the East by this war while our problems are in the South” by immigration and a “Clash of Civilizations” that he denounces. “We have to face it [à la guerre] but we must continue, which we are doing, by the way, to talk regarding all the subjects of French daily life”estimated Marine Le Pen for her part.
Before holding her press briefing on Saturday morning, Marine Le Pen had taken a long walk on the Boucanet beach in Grau-du-Roi to admire Camargue herdsmen, on their horses, guiding bulls to the arenas at the occasion of shelter. She greeted this « tradition » local and defended the independents, these “little ones [qui] are more and more in difficulty”in one “world made for the fat and by the fat”.
Arrested on the beach by a retiree, Nadia, who asked her if it was “normal that he [Poutine] cause a lot of deaths” in Ukraine, she replied that it was necessary ” maintain hope “ from “return to reason” the Russian president, who received him during the presidential election in 2017. “We can already welcome the women and children who are fleeing” the war, “The important thing is to obtain peace”she added.
During the press briefing, Marine Le Pen reiterated her opposition to the delivery of arms to Ukraine by France and that it was necessary “bet it all” on diplomacy. She added that it was also necessary “think regarding penalties”but that they should not lead to “economic collapse” from France.
