In an interview with the JDD, the former president of the National Rally recalls that she aims at the Presidency of the Republic. It also excludes an alliance with the Republicans.
Le Monde
Questioned in Sunday newspaper (JDD) of November 13 , Marine Le Pen says she is not afraid of a dissolution of the National Assembly, a threat mentioned in several Removers by Emmanuel Macron in the event of blocking in Parliament.
“If the president uses this argument as a threat, she absolutely does not scare us,” said the former president of the National Rally (RN) who now leads the RN group of deputies to the National Assembly. “We have no fear to go back to the campaign! We could come out much more powerful than today, or even in ability to have a Prime Minister,” she said while her party won a score History of 89 seats in June.
But in this case, she specifies that she does not wish the post of Prime Minister, adding having “other ambitions”: “that of being president of the Republic. And that does not go through the Matignon box . “
The Republicans have neither” ideas “nor” leader “
M the pen also runs to the possibility of an alliance with the Republicans (LR) in case Eric Ciotti was elected at the head of the right party in December. “He has all the defects of LR. Like Aurélien Pradié, moreover,” she says.
“For a party to work, it takes ideas and a leader. LR has neither. -I to support your point.
Regarding the proposal of La France Insoumise (LFI) to bring the SMIC on November 24 to 1,600 euros, the deputy of Pas-de-Calais announces that her party will vote against. “The minimum wage is a low-wage hatch for the middle classes and can cause stallions among very small businesses,” she judges. M le Pen advances two other proposals: “lower VAT on energy prices and deleting it for a basket of basic necessities” and “encourage companies to increase wages of 10 % by exempting them from the surplus of employers’ charges “.
Jordan Bardella” is free to choose his team “
The standardization efforts of the national rally were undergoing recently by the exclusion of fifteen days – an “incredibleness of hardness” sanction, she judges – of her deputy of Gironde Grégoire de Fournas, implicated For having launched in the hemicycle during the question session of the government, the expression “which he returns to Africa!”, She admits that “this arrest was awkward”, but considers that her “words were distorted” .
“On the merits, he defended the positions of the RN: when migrants are drafted, they must be sheltered and brought back to the departure port”, she justifies.
On another theme, the former president of the RN regrets the decision of his successor Jordan Bardella, widely elected at the head of the party (85 % of the votes), to rule out the new executive body Bruno Bilde and Steeve Briois , due, she says, “too deep disagreements”.
“I am a Democrat, advance M me le Pen to explain that she has not defended two of her relatives who fear an ideological radicalization under the mandate of Jordan Bardella. The new president is free to choose his team. I regret this disagreement which is personal and deep, and not political. “