The Acropolis Palace was well attended, despite the competition from other political meetings at the same time, hosting the honorary president of the National Front, Jean Marie Le Pen, as part of the Nice municipal election campaign.
After the evening’s presentation by the departmental president of the FN, Lydia Schenardi, the candidate of the Nice Bleu Marine list, Marie Christine Arnautu, took the stage accompanied by the famous song by Dalida “C’est vrai!” sung in chorus by the audience, mentioning the UMPS system and affairs, punctuated by: It’s true! Then, parodying Fernandel, there were impressions of Sarkozy, Estrosi. The candidate then tackled the record of the outgoing mayor, his choices, and foreign preference: Nice and the people of Nice abandoned! Then followed a satirical attack on other lists, “Frogs wanting to swell as big as an ox!” Finally, the candidate explained the main themes of her program: A new breath for Nice!
Then it was the turn of Jean Marie Le Pen, who was applauded by an electrified audience. The far-right leader became poetic and even referred to a poem by Charles d’Orléans for the birth of spring: The time has forgotten its coat…
Also mentioning Martin Luther King, he appropriated the famous “I have a dream,” but a dream for France, “A dream of its revival. It is urgent to reverse the mechanism of decline. The electoral deadlines are numerous, and each time it must be a stage of our revival. The situation in France is dire, on paper all is lost.”
But one must have Faith, Jean Marie Le Pen explains: “France has always known spectacular recoveries.” Quoting Saint John the Evangelist: “The truth will set us free.” The honorary president of the FN provides figures on the demographic surge of the third world, the declining birthrate in Europe. “The consequences are dramatic: immigration, insecurity, poverty, debt, and unemployment. France has 2,000 billion in debt. By looking at our navel, we fail to see the iceberg, and it’s the Titanic.”
Jean Marie Le Pen concluded with an appeal, that of bringing the truth for the survival of the French people: “Our campaign is the strength of common sense.”
