Presidential election 2022 Marine Le Pen
The far-right candidate gave her most violent speech on Thursday, the day after her missed debate, in a combative and populist register evoking her 2017 campaign.
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Last meeting of the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, in Arras, April 21, 2022. AGNES DHERBEYS / MYOP FOR "THE WORLD"
Your honeyed one day, furious another. Marine Le Pen took on another face in Arras, Thursday April 21, twenty-four hours after her televised debate against Emmanuel Macron. In front of 3,000 supporters gathered for a final meeting, she delivered the most violent speech of her presidential campaign, at once populist, aggressive and threatening. With anger in her voice, the far-right candidate entered the heart of the matter by evoking her performance… by “the attitude of the candidate president”. “We saw a nonchalant, condescending Emmanuel Macron with limitless arrogance. A president shouldn't stand like that. But are we really surprised? “, she began by arousing whistles.
All the animosity contained on the set of France 2-TF1 seemed to spring up in this diatribe conceived as its own defense: “I have had enough of this permanent disrespect. I will be the president of the respect of the French, and I know that they are desperately waiting for respect! Her adversary would be, she says, "the holder of a revealed truth" that no one could "contest without being mocked and anathematized".
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As if to rewrite the film, Marine Le Pen returned to her favorite themes, “massive and anarchic immigration” and “wildness”. She quoted "McKinsey", which she had paid lip service to the day before. New boos. She charged a "feverish" and "disrespectful" head of state, with a "disastrous record", who "is in reality a dunce", while his own project would be "perfectly feasible, legally applicable, financially sustainable", which she failed to demonstrate during the debate between the two rounds.
“He had his chance, he failed, above all he showed who he was”, convinced Marine Le Pen, calling for the formation of an “anti-Macron front”. “Since he wanted to reduce this meeting to a referendum, banco! “, she shouted, formulating her question: “Macron or France? “In the public, where the waves of flags did not weaken, an activist then shouted three times: “Macron hanging! »
During the last meeting of the candidate of the National Rally, in Arras, on April 21, 2022. AGNES DHERBEYS / MYOP FOR “THE WORLD”
Verbal virulence
Marine Le Pen directed the "violence" she says she suffered towards this public who adore her. "Everyone, last night, understood that Emmanuel Macron did not like the French," she said. She castigated “the 'extreme right' anathema”, “as if you who are here, as if the millions of French people I represent had anything to do with the extreme right! “On her project to revise the Constitution from top to bottom by referendum, she accused:” It is you he wants to circumvent! »
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