The patron saint of RN deputies believes that it is important to maintain respect for this “moment of national communion.”
“Times for everything.” While participating in the May 8 parade in the town of Montigny-en-Gohelle, in her Pas-de-Calais constituency, Marine Le Pen laid a wreath of flowers in honor of the soldiers who fell during the Second World War.
“I have difficulties to understand”
In parallel with this moment of memory, the double presidential finalist in 2017 and 2022 also returned, to BFMTV, to the tense social context which surrounds these commemorations.
“It’s a bit out of place. We have to make a kind of parenthesis on May 8. I find it difficult to understand why that day could be chosen to express an opposition, which moreover I share, to the reform of the pensions,” she said.
Marine Le Pen is referring here to the call to demonstrate launched by the CGT du Rhône near the Jean-Moulin memorial where President Emmanuel Macron must go during the day in Lyon, before the prefecture prohibits gatherings. Despite an appeal filed by the union, the administrative court confirmed the ban on the gathering.
This morning, during a first commemoration ceremony in Paris, the President of the Republic paraded on the almost empty Champs-Élysées, protected by a large security perimeter.
“It’s a moment of national communion, of remembrance, where French families remember their dead,” said Marine Le Pen. “I find that coming to make a fuss about it is not appropriate. I hope the message has passed,” she says, pointing to the flags of the French Communist Party nearby.
