Marine Le Pen and Anne Hidalgo launch into the presidential election

The French presidential campaign accelerated on Sunday with the candidacy of the socialist mayoress of Paris, Anne Hidalgo and the choice of the far-right leader Marine Le Pen to hand over the leadership of her party to devote herself to the election.

Marine Le Pen, already a finalist in the 2017 presidential election, is very well placed in the polls to qualify for the second round in 2022. Mme Hidalgo, whose first candidacy is, is far behind in voting intentions.

Si Mme Le Pen risks facing the possible candidacy of the sulphurous columnist Éric Zemmour, Mme Hidalgo launches into a political landscape cluttered by numerous candidacies from the far left to socialists through environmentalists.

Marine Le Pen, 53, transmitted to her number two, Jordan Bardella, the leadership of the National Rally (RN) and detailed her program in a speech in Fréjus, in the south of the country, while Anne Hidalgo, 62, confirmed that she was a candidate during a speech in Rouen.

Seven months before the first round, the first deployed its campaign slogan, “freedoms”, to address some of its favorite themes.

She thus promised a referendum onimmigration from his election and the greatest firmness in the fight against crime, promising to put “French delinquents in prison, foreigners, on the plane”, or to restore public authority in “narcocities or Talibanized areas “.

Referendum and proportional

Marine Le Pen has also promised the establishment of a citizens’ initiative referendum, or proportional representation for the elections.

On the international side, she said that France would leave the integrated command of NATO, promoter according to her of “the bellicose and anachronistic logic of the old blocks of the cold war” and criticized in passing the Turkish Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“France will decide freely on the wars or military interventions that it accepts to lead by virtue of its national interest” and “no more French people will die in wars which are not ours”, she said. .

Regarding Europe, she promised to “give power back to the nations”.

“We will recognize the right of each state to assert its national interest”, she said, wanting “to put an end to the mad technocratic dictatorship” of which she accuses the European institutions.

No more French people will die in wars that are not ours

Anne Hidalgo has put an end to the false suspense on her candidacy and declared to be “a candidate to offer a future to our children, to all our children”.

Boasting her “experience” as mayor of the main French city and her policy of fighting automobile pollution, she insisted on the ecological dimension of her campaign.

“We must succeed in the ecological transition”, she launched, promising a “five-year plan to decarbonize our economy”, but also negotiations to increase wages, more decentralization or the right to die, among others.

“First woman president”

Mme Hidalgo, who said she was going to “elaborate [son projet] in the discussion ”, did not give details of its international program, saying it wanted“ a stronger, more secure France whose unique voice must once again carry in Europe and in the world ”.

The two women also attacked Emmanuel Macron, accused of arrogance. The latter, likely candidate for a second term, received the support of his former prime minister, Édouard Philippe, a popular right-wing figure on Sunday.

Mme Hidalgo said he wanted to “put an end to contempt” while, for Mme Le Pen, there is “nothing more odious than a contemptuous government”, in reference to the demonstrations which have punctuated the Macron presidency, from those of the yellow vests to those against the health passport.

The two declared candidates also spoke about the condition of women. Mme Hidalgo promised that they will obtain “finally full equality, wages and careers.”

Mme Le Pen, for her part, promised to punish harassment in the street more severely or to fight to allow women to emancipate themselves: “We will restore the freedom of women and young girls to move without being bothered or threatened. […] at any time of the day or night, in any neighborhood. “

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