Marine Le Pen blasts: EU to blame for mass migration and Brexit has inspired Frexit fight
MARINE Le Pen has blamed the EU for sparking mass migration and said seeing the impact Brexit has had is inspiring her fight for a French EU Referendum.
Le Pen has blamed the EU for migrant problems
The Front National leader said that France is looking forward to "taking back our freedom" and rallied her country to wrestle back control from Brussels bureaucrats.
The 48-year-old, who is vying to become French President in next year's elections, also said France should ditch the euro currency and bring back the Franc.
Writing on Twitter, Ms Le Pen said: "We want a free France that can decide its own law, its currency and guard its own borders.
"Nous voulons une France libre, maîtresse de ses lois, de sa monnaie, et gardienne de ses frontières." #EstivalesMLP pic.twitter.com/EPX0BKiJry
— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) September 18, 2016
Le Pen has vowed to hold an EU referendum if she wins the election
We want a free France that can decide its own law, its currency and guard its own borders
"We have seen with passion Brexit and we are looking forward to taking back our freedom!"
She also said: "Mass immigration and multiculturalism are the children of the EU."
And in another dig at the failing bloc, Ms Le Pen wrote: "We have linked the EU signing absurd treaties with preventing economic patriotism."
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Marion Le Pen has backed her aunt's comments
Marion Le Pen, Ms Le Pen's niece, agreed with her aunt's comments. She tweeted: "We are not protecting our borders from immigration and the EU is bringing boats full of migrants to our shores."
The Front National leader held a conference at the weekend in Frejus in the south of France where she outlined her strategy to become president in next year's French elections.
Opinion polls have predicted the anti-immigration and anti-EU Ms Le Pen will make it to the second round of the 2017 elections.
Le Pen said the EU was to blame for immigration issues
"On ne protège pas nos frontières de l'immigration et l'Union européenne ramène les bateaux de migrants sur nos côtes"#EstivalesMLP
— Marion Le Pen (@Marion_M_Le_Pen) September 18, 2016
Her ratings have spiked because of Europe's migrant crisis and concerns over Islamic extremist terror attacks.
Her campaign poster sports the slogan "France Brought To Peace".
In Frejus, Ms Le Pen said French voters were never given a say on the "biggest change in a century in the nation: the opening up to mass immigration".
The far-right leader said that immigration "swept aside the benefits of secularism, women's liberation and the Republican pact", bringing in "people with beliefs, customs and practises that are not ours".