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00:00Still a show of strength here at the National Assembly as the RN troops
00:04entered and the MPs of Marine Le Pen took a picture on the steps of the
00:09National Assembly and yes they've had they have a historic number of MPs
00:16126 plus 17 allies from the breakaway faction if you will of the Conservative
00:22Party Les Républicains of Eric Ciotti. 126 for the national rally it's very good
00:28when you look at last time they got 89 in 2022 and only 8 in 2017 so for the
00:37national rally the French far-right it's clearly the sign that they're getting
00:40stronger and stronger and moments before that picture was taken Marine Le Pen was
00:45here answering our questions and she was pretty keen to stress that everything's
00:52been done by President Macron and his allies to prevent the far-right from
00:57getting into power but that the far-right would get into a power soon of
01:03course she's eyeing 2027 and the presidential elections but she's also
01:08said to us that what the situation now is chaotic in the National Assembly and
01:15in the French politics world of politics with those three strong equally strong
01:23more or less blocks even though the left-wing block has come first in the
01:28elections and she says it's all the fault of President Macron he's created
01:32this chaos and it will see in the coming weeks the far-left leader or radical
01:37left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon causing trouble in the National Assembly those
01:41are the words of course of Marine Le Pen. She did talk a little bit as well
01:44didn't she Clovis about what went wrong within the party within their campaign
01:50yes indeed I asked her what went wrong during this campaign with of course
01:55these cases of racism with picture screen grabs resurfacing from social
02:01media with candidates committing racist slurs pictures of one candidate wearing
02:07a Nazi cap and she said I'm not going to say a word on that Jordan Bardella who
02:13was of course leading the her campaign in the legislative elections has said
02:17enough those MPs committed mistakes they have been expelled thrown out of
02:23the National Rally those are isolated cases I won't say anything more and
02:28minutes ago I was talking to another MP from the National Rally who was really
02:33minimizing the number of cases he was saying there are only five or six such
02:37cases of MPs making racist comments and so on I pointed to him actually dozens
02:44have made some controversial comments and he said anyway this is behind us
02:50we're moving forward and those were isolated cases in no way is the National
02:55Rally a racist or extremist party that's what Laurent Jacobelli
03:00newly elected MP for the Moselle area told me Clovis good to talk to you