Eight days before the second round of the presidential election, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen continues her tour of France to meet voters. After going to Vaucluse on Friday, where she notably visited the Notre-Dame-de-la-Purification church, in the town of Lauris, she is traveling this Saturday to Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, in Eure-et-Loir.
During this visit, Marine Le Pen notably returned to her proposal to ban the wearing of the veil. While she felt on Friday on BFMTV that it was “essential” to ban the veil, the RN candidate explained that she was “not obtuse” on the subject. She nevertheless insisted that it was necessary “to solve these problems of women who are forced to wear the veil because they are under pressure from the Islamists”.
“I know what the problems with the veil are”
“I know what the problems with the veil are. There are older women who put it on because it corresponds, for them, to a moment in their lives. (…) It does not have the same meaning as for young women who are forced to put it on,” she added. At the same time, Marine Le Pen castigated the demonstrations organized this Saturday in France against the far right.
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The 53-year-old politician described these gatherings as “deeply anti-democratic”: “Coming to demonstrate against the results of an election, I find that it is deeply anti-democratic. So I think the French find it unpleasant to see their choice being challenged in the street, through demonstrations. »
15,000 demonstrators throughout France
“I want to say to all these people: go and vote! I believe that (the protesters) are not going to be very numerous, I have known in the past things a little more spectacular, ”slipped Marine Le Pen in front of the press. According to the authorities, nearly 15,000 people are expected to demonstrate throughout the territory, responding to the call of more than thirty organizations and unions including SOS Racisme, the CGT or the Syndicat de la magistrature.
According to the far-right candidate, “if the system implements such demonization it is because it is afraid. (…) He is worried because he sees that the people want to regain power”. “This brutal agitation that we are witnessing between the two towers is again quite disrespectful of democracy,” she judged.