The candidate of the National Rally for the presidential election was the guest of 8:30 a.m. franceinfo Monday, March 21. She answered questions from Sahlia Brakhlia and Lorrain Sénéchal.
Fuels: “The 15 cents” discount, “it’s a form of scam”
Rather than applying a discount of 15 cents per liter on all fuels as announced by Jean Castex, Marine Le Pen defends a “VAT cut to 5.5%” on energy. According to her, these “measures allow to lower the price of the liter from 35 cents to 50 cents”. This tax cut would cost “12 billion euros”adds the candidate. “I assume them completely, because I consider that energy is a basic necessity. I don’t want the French to have the choice between eating and heating, which is the case for many today”.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon advocates “a policy of deconstruction of our country”
“As long as the election has not taken place, all hypotheses are possible” acknowledged Marine Le Pen, candidate of the National Rally for the presidential election, when she was questioned about the possibility for Jean-Luc Mélenchon to reach the second round. Since Thursday, the LFI candidate is indeed third in the Ipsos Sopra Steria barometer for franceinfo and Le Parisien/Aujourd’hui en Francewhich measures the change in opinion from day to day, up to the first round.
The candidate of the National Rally appeals to “patriots” : they “must vote in conscience to allow a national candidate to be present” in the second round.
War in Ukraine: Marine Le Pen “has no particular admiration” for Volodymyr Zelensky
Marine Le Pen, who is also an MP for Pas-de-Calais, will not attend Volodymyr Zelensky’s speechthe Ukrainian president, by videoconference, in front of deputies and senators, Wednesday. “I will not be present, I have obligations taken for a long time”, she explained. The far-right candidate, who was received by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2017 presidential campaign, and continues to repay a loan to a Russian creditor, has scheduled two interviews on her agenda for Wednesday afternoon, as well as a a press conference on the costing of his project.
“I have no particular admiration for Mr. Zelensky”she also said.“I just believe he behaves like a head of state.” For the RN candidate, “it shouldn’t arouse admiration, it should be normal”. “It’s because our own leaders don’t always behave like heads of state that we find it wonderful when others do”.