PARIS — Marine Le Pen doesn’t want the French to sweat, whether it’s over the rise of the far right or the mercury climbing up their thermometers.
“It is high time that France rolled out a major air-conditioning equipment plan,” the French far-right leader said Monday, as France and the rest of Europe suffer through a major heat wave.
The dangerously warm temperatures, forecast to hit 36 degrees Celsius in Paris and as high as 40C in some places, have prompted the government to place an unprecedented 84 departments under heat wave warnings.
In a post on X, Le Pen struck while the iron — and everything else — was hot, turning the lack of air conditioning into a political issue. She accused the government of forcing ordinary people to suffer the heat while the “so-called French elites” benefit from air conditioning.
