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Old June 23rd, 2019 #279
Stewart Meadows
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Emmanuel Macron torn apart by Le Pen's deputy - ‘Divide between patriots and globalists’


MEP Jordan Bardella, vice-president of France’s far-right Rassemblement national (RN) party, said on Wednesday that today’s Europe pitted “patriots against globalists,” as he described President Emmanuel Macron’s party as the “worst” of all political worlds.

By Romina McGuinness
PUBLISHED: 22:43, Wed, Jun 19, 2019 | UPDATED: 22:56, Wed, Jun 19, 2019

The French far-right has been energised by its win in last month’s EU vote, saying that the rise of the populist right shows that nationalists have changed the bloc’s “political chessboard”.

“Today, the political divide is between patriots and globalists,” Mr Bardella told France Info radio.

“It opposes those who want to continue transferring our powers [to Brussels], who do nothing to stop mass immigration, and who allow total free trade; against those who, like the RN, defend the nation, common sense, fiscal peace and the end of immigration,” he continued.

Mr Bardella echoed an earlier comment by far-right lawmaker Louis Aliot, a senior RN official, who also said that the new political battle was between “globalists and patriots” in an interview with Europe 1 radio.

In a separate interview with the news channel BFMTV on Tuesday, Mr Bardella, the rising star of the French far-right, lashed out at France’s centrist leader, accusing him of bringing together the “worst of the left and the right”.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...-marine-le-pen