“Why Marine Le Pen chooses appear”
Marine Le Pen at the National embly, May 24, 2023. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP COUNTERPOINT – Contrary to the still lazily maintained cliché, the RN is not simply a protest party. The…
“Why Marine Le Pen chooses appear”
Marine Le Pen at the National embly, May 24, 2023. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP
COUNTERPOINT – Contrary to the still lazily maintained cliché, the RN is not simply a protest party.
The day of the Annecy attack, Marine Le Pen tweeted as a mother, not an opponent of immigration. The presidential finalist left the leaders LR and Reconquest! plunge into controversy.
Why rush when the news is rushing your way? The MP for Pas-de-Calais left the mistigri of recovery to others. Her offensive on this ground, she did not do it by surfing on an emotion but by denouncing on the merits, this Thursday on Franceinfo, the effects, harmful in her eyes, of the “asylum and immigration pact” that the countries of the European Union have just validated.
Electoral credibility
This example illustrates the current Lepenist strategy. The first challenge is no longer to appear exclusively as a sensor of the anger or rejection of the French, but to gain credibility. Contrary to the cliché still lazily maintained, the RN is not simply a protest party whose results would be indexed on the failures of public policies. The proof?…
