French Must Come First, Far-Right Leader Le Pen Says at Election Campaign Launch
Le Pen said French citizens should get priority for social housing as she opened her fourth presidential bid, with polls showing her strongest chance yet.
- On Sunday, presidential candidate Marine Le Pen launched her fourth campaign in Henin-Beaumont, France, detailing housing plans and pledging 'national priority' for French citizens seven months before the election.
- Speaking to around 2,000 supporters, Le Pen argued that French nationals should enjoy 'more rights in France than others,' defending this as essential for citizens to feel 'at home.'
- Housing proposals formed a key pillar of the platform, with Le Pen aiming to increase supply by scrapping environmental regulations and prioritizing French citizens for social housing.
- Jordan Bardella, the 31-year-old National Rally head, was chosen as Le Pen's prime minister despite recent reports of internal policy differences that went unaddressed at the event.
- Despite a graft conviction upheld in July that she is challenging in court, Le Pen remains a front runner for the Elysee, positioning the 2027 election as a 'surge of renewal' for France's rebirth.
67 Articles
67 Articles
Marine Le Pen focused her return speech on housing on Sunday 13 September in Hénin-Beaumont, an unprecedented theme for the National Rally. In front of her activists, she proposed to release the construction...
Hénin-Beaumont, 14 set. (askanews) - Marine Le Pen kicks off the race for the Elysée and in his first campaign speech in his stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont, he goes back to the French presidential elections in April-May, putting aside at the moment the polemics for the differences, true or presumed, with his dolphin Jordan Bardella. Le Pen risked having to abandon the race to the Elysée for the criminal conviction in the trial for the illicits in …
On the margins of a meeting held in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) on Sunday 13 September, Marine Le Pen made housing one of its main rural axes by placing it "at the heart" of its "presidential project".
Since her fief d'Hénin-Beaumont, the far right candidate has launched her race at the Elysée by focusing on the difficulties of the French daily. Preferring the background to political picks, she hears
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 40% of the sources are Center
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
