"Barring exceptional events" Marine Le Pen will not re-nominate for the French presidential elections. She confirmed it herself in an interview with Le Figaro: "I think that three presidential elections already represent a path that has allowed me to grow our ideas from 18% to 42% in ten years , it's not bad", said the Rassemblement National candidate defeated by Macron in the ballot.
The question, explained Le Pen, is “who will carry our ideas forward in five years. It's too early to talk about it, but I'd like to see a new elite emerge ”.
“ Despite Macron's lies, the French have chosen me as their first opponent ”, claimed the far-right exponent, who is now thinking of the laws that will renew the French Parliament in June. “I wish democracy could give us the capabilities and powers of the opposition. It's not just about having a group. But to have all the means made available to the opposition in a living democracy. Such as, for example, the power to invest the Constitutional Council. Which would mean having at least 60 deputies. We could have beautiful surprises ".
The president , according to Le Pen, “cannot explain to us that everything changes and continue to find it normal for the first opposition force to find itself, as in the last 5 years, with only 6 deputies. We need to find a normal, demanding and mature democratic functioning ”.
As for the new leadership of the National Rassemblement , "we will talk about it after the legislative elections".
Marine Le Pen was elected president of the Front National in 2011 following the resignation of her father Jean Marie. In the 2012 presidential elections he took 17.9%, finishing third behind Hollande and Sarkozy. In 2017 and 2022 (with the name of the party changed to Rassemblement National) it went to the ballot against Macron and lost it on both occasions: .
