Marine Le Pen told Le Point, in the midst of the crisis of the Yellow Vests just months of the European elections, that the political landscape in her country has significantly shifted.
Le Pen answered the questions of Le Point in a long interview published on January 26.
The mobilization of Yellow Vests, which has lasted for more than two months, is disrupting the French political landscape and there is less certainty about the country in near future.
Le Pen, meanwhile, believes the European elections, which will take place in May, could well see the rise to power of her party, after her defeat in the second round of the presidential election.
French voters want a “real social choice” she says. “Are we structuring politics around the nation and protecting people or are we structuring it around globalism as does Emmanuel Macron?”
She accused Macron in particular of wanting to campaign for the European elections under cover of the great national debate launched recently.
“This big debate has nothing to do with getting the opinion of the French,” she says, lambasting “a European campaign paid and organised with taxpayers’ money”. Le Pen also added that she was “not at all” in a revanchist state of mind.
Jordan Bardella, head of the European NR list, declared a fortnight ago that the exit of the euro was “no longer the priority” of the party, and that Marine Le Pen now advances a European project based on the concept a “European alliance of nations”.
Such a project would mean “to radically transform the functioning of the European Union”. According to Le Pen: “That does not mean that we can not, in the course of this process, think about a profound change in monetary governance.
“We believe that the European Union has brought the idea of Europe into disrepute,” she explained. The emergence of Eurosceptic governments has pushed Marine Le Pen to believe in a Europe of nations where the European Commission, this institution “composed of unelected technocrats”, would no longer be the only one to take “legislative initiative”.
What Macron proposes, according to her, is “to accelerate European federalism, that is to say, to further accelerate the loss of power of nations”.
About the launch of a Yellow Vest list for the European elections, Marine Le Pen said she had “nothing” to fear, arguing that “nobody was fooled” by the “political maneuvers” of billionaire Bernard Tapie, who had offered to fund the initiators of the said list.