Marine Le Pen: “Inauguration by Fabius and Macron of Renault plant in Algeria is an insult to French workers”
Far-right French National Front party leader, Marine Le Pen, has not seemingly swallowed this week’s inauguration of a new Renault car factory in Algeria by vehemently castigating the presence during the official inauguration ceremony in Oran of two French officials namely Mr Fabius and Mr Macron alongside top Algerian officials including Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and Interior and Local Assemblies Minister Tayeb Belaiz.
Marine Le Pen said in a press release posted on Tuesday on the National Front party website that the participation of Fabius and Macron in the inauguration ceremony for the launching of the Renault car symbol made in Algeria was an “insult to the French workers”, as she put it.
Marine Le Pen said that the two French officials should have encouraged and promoted the opening of factories in France itself. This lame statement is seen as a blatant defiance of the links of cooperation and exchanges which normally regulate the relations between world countries.
She accused the two officials of failing to spur the French economy by closing factories in France.
“A Renault car plant in Algeria appears as a particularly indecent provocation”, she further said.
Marine Le Pen is notoriously known for her blameworthy hatred and intolerance towards foreign migrant workers residing in France with on target Algerians.
Like her father who has blood of innocent Algerians on his hands during the French Colonial yoke in Algeria, Marine Le Pen has not yet swallowed up Algeria’s hard-won independence on July 5th 1962 after a glorious national liberation struggle against the then French occupier.
The Renault Algeria factory is to produce the Symbol, a saloon based on Renault’s Clio compact sold mainly in markets where hatchbacks are not traditionally favoured.
Initial capacity of 25,000 cars is expected to rise to a maximum yearly output of 75,000.
Production is destined for the Algerian market, Africa’s second largest in terms of sales, with more than 400,000 vehicles imported every year.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron were on hand with Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal as the first new car rolled off the assembly lines in the country’s second city Oran.
An agreement for the joint venture was signed in December 2012 during an official visit to Algeria by French President Francois Hollande.
Algerian sources say overall investment in the plant is expected to reach 800 million euros.
Renault also operates a plant at Tangiers in neighbouring Morocco, where 100,000 vehicles were built in 2013, 90 percent of them for export.