Le Pen: ‘France has CAVED IN to Brussels and is now teeming with enemies ’
FRENCH presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has urged the nation to vote for her and keep the nation a “sovereign state” or back the opposition and live in a “foreign country” they will “no longer be able to recognise”.
Marine Le Pen has urged France to vote for her and keep the nation a 'sovereign state'
Front National leader Ms Le Pen also criticised the European Union’s current immigration policy and "politico-religious habits coming from abroad" - citing “foreigners” and “communitarianism” as the cause.
Speaking at the launch of her campaign for president, she said: “France is no longer a sovereign state. It is now teeming with enemies who are desperately trying to impose their own way of life on the French.
“French people have been robbed of the right to be ‘themselves’ in their own country.”
The presidential candidate accused the EU of 'interfering' in French internal affairs
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She added the French government had “caved in” to foreign demands imposed by Brussels, Washington, and Berlin.
Yes to multiculturalism on a global scale; no to multiculturalism on a national scale
The right-wing leader also said there could be “no national identity without sovereignty” and accused the EU of “interfering” in French internal affairs.
She said: "Yes to multiculturalism on a global scale; no to multiculturalism on a national scale.”
Ms Le Pen launched her 2017 presidential campaign at the weekend
Ms Le Pen told reporters she would only ‘fully’ start her campaign once her opponents' primaries are over: centre-right politicians will choose their candidate in November and the Socialists will choose theirs in January.
The leader of the anti-immigrant and anti-EU Front National party also announced David Rachline, the right-wing mayor of Frejus, where the rally was held, would be orchestrating her presidential campaign.
The Front National leader also criticised the European Union’s current immigration policy
Ms Le Pen, who officially launched her 2017 presidential campaign during a major rally in southern France at the weekend, said Mr Rachline, who is known for his unyielding stance against immigrants, had been a ‘perfect’ right-wing mayor and had “fully deserved” his promotion.
Ms Le Pen used this opportunity to unveil her party’s new slogan ‘in the name of the people’, which is to replace the one used by her father - ‘a soothed France’.