AVIGNON, April 15 — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Thursday urged France to defeat elitism and oligarchy in elections this month, as she seeks to reach out to left-wing voters to beat President Emmanuel Macron.
In a major rally in the southern city of Avignon, Le Pen, wearing a red jacket, said she was addressing “patriots of the right, patriots of the left.”Appearing to address Melenchon voters, she said: “Come out and vote. We are speaking to all the French. We hold out a firm hand but one of friendship and respect.
But she urged France to block a new five-year term for Macron to halt “social desolation and national deconstruction” and put an end to “this caste which governs us with arrogance, these few who rule for the benefit of the few”.It will be a showdown between the “people and the oligarchy”, she added.She took aim at Macron, saying he was “not the man of a new era but the last avatar of a system that has run its course”.
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