Marine Le Pen launches presidential campaign with vow to restore ‘rule of law’

Marine Le Pen opens 2027 presidential bid with focus on security and national identity

Usagevpn.com – Marine Le Pen formally began her campaign for France’s 2027 presidential election in Orléans, presenting herself to a large National Rally audience as the candidate of order, sovereignty and tougher enforcement of the law.

Speaking six months before the election, Le Pen said France needed a decisive shift after a decade under President Emmanuel Macron. She framed that change as a democratic correction rather than a rupture with the country’s institutions.

“No one thinks we are stronger today than we were yesterday, nor that after ten years of Emmanuel Macron we are walking through a field of rose petals.”

Le Pen, who is leading opinion polls at this stage of the campaign, told supporters that her proposal represented “not a revolutionary act but a normal breath of democratic life.” French flags were waved throughout the gathering at the Orléans convention centre, where her supporters repeatedly voiced their opposition to Macron.

Security at the centre of Le Pen’s message

The National Rally candidate placed public safety at the heart of her platform, arguing that France’s justice system had become too permissive. She linked that criticism to violence, looting and clashes that occurred on 17 October around demonstrations against the rising cost of living.

“Who can claim there is a rule of law when hordes come to ransack and burn our buildings, or carry out real raids in front of law-enforcement officers who have been deliberately disarmed, both materially and morally?”

Le Pen said her presidency would seek greater certainty that cases are prosecuted and that sentences are served. She also promised the expulsion of foreign nationals convicted of offences. Her argument was that the rule of law should protect the state and the public, rather than operate “against the state.”

The speech also returned to longstanding National Rally themes on immigration and sovereignty. Le Pen said she would defend French cultural identity, including the country’s language, traditions, values and way of life. She advocated “national priority” and said she wanted France to restore what she described as a “double border: French and European.”

Those proposals form part of a wider political message aimed at voters who see immigration, insecurity and the erosion of national authority as central concerns. Le Pen portrayed her campaign as an answer to frustrations that she said extend well beyond her party’s traditional electorate.

“Everyone in France agrees with us.”

Foreign policy and military commitments

On international issues, Le Pen said France should avoid sending young people into conflicts she characterised as reckless or irresponsible. Although she did not name Ukraine, her remarks clearly addressed the debate around France’s role in overseas military commitments and the limits of French involvement in wars beyond its borders.

France “will not send” its young people “to die in reckless or irresponsible military adventures, and even less in wars that are not ours.”

Her position reinforced the sovereigntist approach she has made central to her political identity. The campaign message combines calls for stronger borders and domestic authority with an insistence that France should retain control over its foreign-policy choices.

Bardella attacks government and the left

Jordan Bardella, the National Rally president, introduced Le Pen before her address. He used his appearance to condemn the government’s handling of unrest linked to the social movement and to argue that the country’s leaders had failed in their duty to protect the public.

“The French have seen a power that has fallen, that has given up, that has abdicated even the idea of protecting our compatriots.”

Bardella said the National Rally had emerged as the sole political force able to restore order and authority. When people in the hall chanted “Macron, resign,” he responded that the president would not remain for long, saying: “it’s planned and it’s coming soon.”

He also criticised La France Insoumise and its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Bardella accused the hard-left party of encouraging an insurrectionary atmosphere through its support for high-school students and the wider protest movement. In his view, that stance meant LFI could not credibly seek the highest offices of the state.

Brief protest interrupts rally

Bardella’s speech was temporarily disrupted when members of a Jewish student organisation unfurled a banner referring to allegations that antisemitic posts had been deleted from an old Facebook account. He called on the audience not to give publicity to “the far left, which hates democracy,” before asking those present to sing the Marseillaise while security personnel dealt with the incident.

The Union of French Jewish Students later said its activists were responsible for the banner. Its message referred to allegations involving antisemitic posts attributed to Bardella when he was 18. Bardella rejects those accusations.

The rally followed the National Rally’s party congress, which took place under heavy police protection. Bardella, who faced no opponent in the leadership vote, was returned as party president with 98.98% of ballots cast. He had previously been considered a possible presidential candidate if Le Pen’s conviction in the case involving European Parliament assistants had prevented her from running.

Instead, the Orléans event placed Le Pen firmly at the front of the National Rally’s presidential campaign. Her opening message made clear that she intends to contest the election around security, immigration, sovereignty and what she calls the restoration of the rule of law.