France's Le Pen launches presidential bid as protests rattle the nation
Jordan Bardella won 98.98% of the vote as the party used its congress to showcase unity and set up Marine Le Pen’s campaign launch.
- On Sunday, National Rally leader Marine Le Pen launched her presidential campaign in Orleans, addressing 10,000 supporters and promising "zero tolerance" policing to restore security as the state's first duty.
- Nationwide cost-of-living protests flared into violence on Saturday, providing the backdrop for Le Pen's campaign as France faces mounting economic, social and security crises.
- An opinion poll published Sunday puts Le Pen at 32% to 33.5% against hard-left rival Jean-Luc Melenchon at 17%, while she built her speech around a national "Renaissance" theme.
- The congress re-elected Jordan Bardella as party president and Le Pen's choice for prime minister, though activists interrupted his speech over accusations he denies regarding antisemitic comments.
- Le Pen, who transformed the party inherited from Jean-Marie in 2011, stopped short of advocating a French exit from the European Union while appealing a conviction for embezzling European Parliament funds.
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France's Le Pen launches presidential bid as protests rattle the nation
Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National and her prime ministerial candidate Jordan Bardella are trying above all to project unity at a congress in Orléans. "In France, we live as French people."
France’s Le Pen vows to restore ‘rule of law’ at presidential campaign launch
Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right candidate to succeed President Emmanuel Macron next year, vowed in her first campaign speech on Sunday to “restore the rule of law” if elected next year. Le Pen - the frontrunner in the polls - seems to be benefiting from the convulsions France has been going through for weeks, punctuated by mass cost-of-living rallies and some violent clashes on Saturday and the previous week. “We are going to restore the rule …
For the announced launch of its presidential campaign, the RN held a big meeting in Orléans this Sunday. Displaying its ally Eric Ciotti, the Lepenist party played both the map of the party of order and that of a displayed will of unity of the country, to better reassure beyond its electoral baseSpeechs on two legs, promising both order and harmony. Marine Le Pen's party held its meeting to launch its presidential campaign in Orléans this weeken…
The French extreme right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen promised during her first large campaign rally on Sunday a "national union" government, "pluralistic", led by Jordan Bardella if she wins the 2027 presidential election.
Marine Le Pen has promised today in its first campaign rally for presidential elections that will form a government "of national union," "pluralist" and directed by the current party president, Jordan Bardella, in the case of victory next May. (ANSA)
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