{"id":1434965,"date":"2022-04-13T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434965"},"modified":"2022-04-13T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:46:08","slug":"marine-le-pen-calls-for-referendum-revolution-to-hand-power-back-to-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marine-le-pen-calls-for-referendum-revolution-to-hand-power-back-to-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Le Pen Calls For &#039;Referendum Revolution&#039; To Hand Power Back To The People"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarine-le-pen-calls-for-referendum-revolution-to-hand-power-back-to-the-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239932135-e1649794261412-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Speaking in the run up to April 24 French Presidential Election, populist candidate Marine Le Pen has called for a \u201creferendum revolution\u201d to put sweeping policy changes to a democratic vote, claiming President Emmanuel Macron has given power to technocrats.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Le Pen gave a press conference in Eure on Wednesday, stating that she would like to see a policy developed in which citizens can initiate referendums on topics, a policy that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/01\/03\/80-percent-of-french-back-yellow-vest-citizen-referendum-initiative-proposal\/\">a central demand of the Gilets Jaunes<\/a> (Yellow Vests) protest movement that has been a major feature of the Macron era government.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI intend, during my mandate, to consult the only expert that Emmanuel Macron has never consulted: the people,\u201d Le Pen said during her press conference, which some have suspected may be a bid to win over voters of the far-left former candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, who placed third in the first round of the French presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesechos.fr\/elections\/presidentielle\/presidentielle-marine-le-pen-promet-une-revolution-referendaire-1400294\">report<\/a> from the newspaper <em>Les Echos<\/em>, Le Pen announced two main policies she wishes to implement if elected president in the second round of voting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has revealed her plan to drastically reduce immigration into the country.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ONDnX4Ee3z\">https:\/\/t.co\/ONDnX4Ee3z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1443954872114626580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The first is a demand to change the electoral system for French parliamentary elections to proportional representation, for at least two-thirds of the seats in the parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the parliament uses a two-round system similar to the presidential elections. A change to proportional representation could see parties like Le Pen\u2019s National Rally gain far more seats as despite nationally polling third in the 2017 parliamentary elections, the RN (formerly the Front National), won fewer seats than other parties with less overall national support.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of the 2017 vote, Le Pen\u2019s party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interieur.gouv.fr\/Elections\/Les-resultats\/Legislatives\/elecresult__legislatives-2017\/(path)\/legislatives-2017\/\/FE.html\">won 2.99 million votes<\/a> but <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ipu.org\/parline-e\/reports\/2113_e.htm\">won just eight seats<\/a> in parliament after the second round, while the French Communist party won just 615,000 votes in the first round and picked up 10 seats after the second round of voting.<\/p>\n<p>The second proposal of Ms Le Pen, the Citizen Initiated Referendum, was described by the populist candidate as \u201ca powerful tool for pacifying the political debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A survey released by a Brazilian-based firm this week has revealed that populist leader Marine Le Pen may be pulling ahead of President Emmanuel Macron as France votes in the first round of its presidential elections this weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/565vDPKoFK\">https:\/\/t.co\/565vDPKoFK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1512444867288383495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le Pen stated that a \u201creferendum revolution\u201d would allow citizens to call for a popular vote on any subject, except for those that may be a \u201cserious attack on national interests,\u201d saying that a referendum would require 500,000 signatures and could propose reforms or repeal or modify existing French laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven those who do not appreciate all my proposals have an interest in voting for me, since they will have the opportunity [\u2026] to pronounce on them, on a case-by-case basis,\u201d Le Pen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly the people\u201d according to Le Pen, should have the ability to change the French constitution and said that she would also like to see French law regarded as superior to international law, a move recently supported in Poland by the country\u2019s supreme court, which, in turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/22\/eu-launches-lawsuit-against-poland-for-violating-primacy-of-eu-laws\/\">led to conflict<\/a> with the European Union.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen took the top spots and will face off again in 13 days&#8217; time to decide the next French President. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MVgRhTBDhC\">https:\/\/t.co\/MVgRhTBDhC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1513526987859673093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in the run up to April 24 French Presidential Election, populist candidate Marine Le Pen has called for a \u201creferendum revolution\u201d to put sweeping policy changes to a democratic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}