The national gathering candidate visited the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, a month after Eric Zemmour and Marion Marechal.
Le Monde
Budapest and his prime minister, Viktor Orban, a passage forms for the figures of the French far right at the beginning of the campaign. One month after Eric Zemmour and Marion Marshal, it was the turn of the National Gathering (RN), Marine Le Pen, to have visited the Hungarian capital, Tuesday, October 26. It has been welcomed by the Conservative leader at the Carmelites Monastery, today’s Office of the Prime Minister, overlooking the Danube.
After a lunch, they both held a press conference with an identical target: the European Union. Criticizing a “centralized Brussels power in enivied with its own existence, its power of its omnipotence”, M me Le Pen denounced a “will of enslavement” of the EU and refused any principle of rule of European law on national rights, with reference to the decision taken in early October by the Polish Constitutional Court.
“This principle could only be imposed by maneuvers” and the Polish courts “are entirely founded to affirm (…) their right to fix and enforce the basic rules of their national pact, of their pact social and even their societal pact, “said the far-right candidate. According to her, “the threats of sanction, and a fortiori exclusion, who are of a rare violence against Hungary or Poland, testify to the issue of the debate that opens”, because ” The European Union knows that she plays her going there “. During a trip to Brussels on Friday, M me Le Pen had already brought its “support” to the chief of the Polish government, Mateusz Morawiecki, criticizing the “unacceptable blackmail” of the European Commission.
Repeating his commitment to “reforming the French Constitution by referendum to act the principle of his superiority”, she pointed out on Wednesday in Budapest that it would also understand “the full settlement of the issue of immigration, this plague of which Our nations must imperatively preserve “. On this subject, she denounced the “migratory submersion to organize the European Union”, of which “disastrous effects” are felt “at the level identity, financial or territorial”.
Defense of sovereignty
In this press conference, the NR candidate also refused to criticize the recent Hungarian anti-LGBT + law, at the center of a legal iron arm with Brussels. This text provides, in particular, that the contents that “represent sexuality or promote the deviation of gender identity, the change of sex and homosexuality should not be accessible at least 18 years.”. A “very serious homophobic law”, according to the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune.
“As I am fundamentally attached to the sovereignty of each nation, it would not come to my mind to come to give lessons to the Hungarian people,” said Marine Le Pen, before. to pay tribute to Viktor Orban and his action at the head of Hungary. “Hungary of 2021, under your behalf, is once again at the point of the fight for the freedom of peoples,” she greeted, while the Prime Minister faces a united opposition to the legislative elections of April 2022.
Welcoming the “courage” and the “determination” of the Hungarian Prime Minister, it took “the commitment”, if it is elected president of the republic next year, to “bring the support of France and of his people to reorient a European Union, whose ideological brutality waiting for the very idea of sovereignty “.
Until this visit, Mr. Orban had long taken care not to show themselves alongside M me Le Pen. But he has changed his attitude since his party left the EPP group in March (right) in the European Parliament, hardening his speech on sexual minorities or immigration, tilting to the extreme right and leaving his original family. So many elements that fascinate the European hard lines, which always court him in the Parliament of Strasbourg. But the subject of a possible alliance has, however, hardly advanced since the publication, in July, a “joint statement” between the NR candidate and about fifteen allies in Europe, including the Hungarian Prime Minister.