French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has launched her party’s campaign for the European elections, pledging to beat President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party in the vote.
Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN), formerly the National Front, presented the first 12 candidates on her list before a crowd of some 2,000 supporters in Paris.
“If Emmanuel Macron does not have the wisdom to change policies, if he does not have the wisdom to return to the people” by dissolving parliament for fresh elections, voters will express their discontent at the European elections, Le Pen says.
The European Parliament elections will be held May 23 to 26.
At the campaign launch, Le Pen slamms Macron over the “yellow vests” protests, which have seen hundreds of thousands of people protest since November, against the president’s policies and leadership.
She accused Macron of “blindness” and “intransigence.”
Macron scored an easy victory over Le Pen in the second round of France’s May 2017 presidential election.
— AFP
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