French Must Come First, Far-Right Leader Le Pen Says at Election Campaign Launch
Le Pen said French citizens should get priority for social housing as she opened her fourth presidential bid, with polls showing her strongest chance yet.
- On Sunday, presidential candidate Marine Le Pen launched her fourth campaign in Henin-Beaumont, France, detailing housing plans and pledging 'national priority' for French citizens seven months before the election.
- Speaking to around 2,000 supporters, Le Pen argued that French nationals should enjoy 'more rights in France than others,' defending this as essential for citizens to feel 'at home.'
- Housing proposals formed a key pillar of the platform, with Le Pen aiming to increase supply by scrapping environmental regulations and prioritizing French citizens for social housing.
- Jordan Bardella, the 31-year-old National Rally head, was chosen as Le Pen's prime minister despite recent reports of internal policy differences that went unaddressed at the event.
- Despite a graft conviction upheld in July that she is challenging in court, Le Pen remains a front runner for the Elysee, positioning the 2027 election as a 'surge of renewal' for France's rebirth.
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Since her fief d'Hénin-Beaumont, the far right candidate has launched her race at the Elysée by focusing on the difficulties of the French daily. Preferring the background to political picks, she hears
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The candidate of the National Rally took over her hand this Sunday when she returned to Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais). First of all by imposing a social subject, housing, as the first theme of the campaign. Then by not giving the floor to Jordan Bardella, however president of the party.
French must come before foreigners, insists far-right Marine Le Pen
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, a frontrunner in the French presidency race, signalled on Sunday that she would favour French citizens over foreigners, defending her long-held principle of "national priority".
Marine Le Pen today promised to establish "national priority" in the allocation of social housing if it wins in 2027.
Marine Le Pen has officially returned to campaigning for the 2027 presidential election, giving her first major speech in her political stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont, at a time when her party is facing internal tensions, controversy over Ukraine and a series of scandals. The National Rally (RN) candidate for the 2027 presidential election returned to Hénin-Beaumont, in northern France, on Sunday, a day after the party's deputies gathered in Le To…
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