As Emmanuel Macron’s freshly installed prime minister scrambles to salvage looming budget negotiations, Marine Le Pen is gaining strength and confidence, casting herself as the uncompromising alternative to a presidency she accuses of driving France into paralysis.

In Bordeaux on Sunday, Le Pen electrified supporters by blaming Macron for steering the country toward chaos and institutional deadlock.

She dismissed the president as a weak leader clinging to power while the nation burns, accusing him of undermining democracy by repeatedly recycling prime ministers from his collapsing camp despite record-low popularity.

Her message was unmistakable: Macron has lost legitimacy, and only the National Rally is prepared to restore order and sovereignty.

“The country is blocked by two forces,” she declared.

“On the one hand a president who organizes institutional paralysis; on the other hand France Unbowed, trying to bring the country to a standstill with their hooded agitators burning trash bins”.

Before Le Pen’s fiery address, National Rally heavyweight Louis Aliot delivered a blistering speech against censorship and leftist violence, paying tribute to slain American conservative voice Charlie Kirk and denouncing the far left’s culture of intimidation.

The crowd erupted, seizing on the party’s message of national pride and resistance to Macron’s crumbling establishment.

Le Pen’s attack coincides with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s desperate attempt to secure support from moderates to pass the 2026 budget and rein in France’s colossal deficit.

But rather than inspire confidence, Lecornu’s maneuvers have highlighted Macron’s weakness.

In Le Pen’s telling, Macron is “confiscating the ball to stop the game,” refusing to face voters while clinging to power through backroom deals with Socialists and conservatives alike.

Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s closest ally, sharpened the point by rejecting Macron’s transactional politics.

“The National Rally is not up for sale to the highest Macronist bidder, as opposed to Les Républicains and the Socialists,” he thundered.

“We are not like them”.

For Le Pen’s movement, every new elite bargain between Macron’s allies and the moderate left only reinforces the narrative that France’s ruling class is conspiring to keep real change at bay.

In private, National Rally leaders describe such deals as nothing less than a mutual kiss of death for the parties involved.

The mood among her supporters is combative.

Chants of “Macron, démission” echoed across Bordeaux, making clear that Macron’s mandate is collapsing in the eyes of ordinary French citizens.

Though barred from running for the moment due to a disputed conviction she is appealing, Le Pen dismissed any notion of retreat.

“I am a determined, stubborn, combative woman, and I am not going to apologize for it,” she told the crowd, drawing thunderous applause.

With local elections on the horizon, Le Pen is leaving no space for Macron’s embattled prime minister, promising to topple as many as necessary until the presidency itself falls.

The National Rally is sharpening its image as the only true defender of democracy against a president increasingly seen as desperate, isolated, and out of touch with the French people.