Le Pen Portrays Herself as France’s President In Waiting

“Marine Le Pen set the stage for a bruising presidential election campaign by accusing Emmanuel Macron of driving France towards chaos, violence and economic decline,” the Times of London reports.

“The leader of the far-right National Rally attacked Macron in an online speech after her annual wreath-laying at Joan of Arc’s statue in Paris on May Day. With opinion polls putting Le Pen in striking distance of Macron in next year’s election, she portrayed herself as a president in waiting.”

Said Le Pen: “I want to restore the national unity and the civil peace which are so cruelly lacking.”