“The result of the presidential ballot, which crowned Emmanuel Macron, is testimony to the great distrust of the French people”. These are the first statements by the leader of Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen.
Looking at the upcoming parliamentary elections, the far-right candidate stressed the “high risk of seeing Macron mechanically seize all legislative and executive powers”. “And it is a prospect that no patriot can accept,” she added, in front of her supporters gathered at the Pavillon d’Armenonville, just outside Paris. “Tonight we launch the great electoral battle of the legislative, which I will lead alongside Jordan Bardella and with all those who had the courage to oppose Emmanuel Macron in the second round. Today’s historic score puts our camp in a position to elect a large number of deputies, ”continued the leader of Rassemblement national, implicitly opening up to a coalition with Eric Zemmour and other right-wing forces. Le Pen then attacked Macron, warning citizens that “the five-year period that opens tonight will not put an end to the brutal and contemptuous practices of the previous mandate”, and then stressed that “no resentment or resentment” for the result, because “a thousand times they gave us up for burial and a thousand times they were wrong. In this defeat I cannot help but feel a form of hope ”. Supporters in the room cheered on the far-right candidate by waving tricolor flags shouting “Marine! Marine! 2 and intoning the Marseillaise.