Marine Le Pen rejects the far-right label for the RN, placing the party “between the centre right and the centre left”

The National Rally is not a far-right party, according to Marine Le Pen. She has been hammering this home and also stated this in an interview with the American channel CNN on Friday, July 5. “I formally contest this term extreme right which, in your country, refers to extremely radical and violent groupsthe MP said. The equivalent of what we are in the United States is between the center right and the center left.”

“You’re kidding, aren’t you?”asked the American journalist, smiling. “I tell you this very sincerely.”continued Marine Le Pen. The use of the expression extreme right is “stigmatizing and prejorative”she judged. “It doesn’t correspond at all to what we are and not at all to what the American extreme right is.”added the former RN presidential candidate.

Marine Le Pen had already tried, in 2013, to put an end to the use of the extreme right label to describe the National Front, the ancestor of the National Rally. She planned to “prosecute” all the people who would do it. His father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of the FN, had also tried to stop this labeling in the 1980s.