“What I'm asking for is a referendum in France. Every EU member should be able to have its say in a referendum” National Front leader Le Pen, a fierce critic of the EU who is also reportedly related to far-right said.
 
Le Pen, who stated she would back a Brexit if she were British, presented herself as a “defender of the freedom of people to choose their destiny and choose their laws”.
 
“It's been 11 years since the French were asked (about the EU)” she commented, also adding that French people was “betrayed” by the two main political parties the last time such a vote was held.
 
During a 2005 referendum, French voters rejected a draft EU constitution which was supported by both President Francois Hollande's Socialists and ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right UMP, now known as The Republicans. Three years later, the French parliament adopted a stripped-down version of the treaty, without resubmitting it to a popular vote. Therefore, Le Pen considers this a highjack of the negative vote on the EU constitution.
 
The leader of the National Front, which topped the poll in France's voting for the European Parliament in 2014 and appears strong in every poll for the Presidential Elections of 2017, accused the EU of pursuing closer integration “against our will”.
 
Ms. Le Pen also accused the European Union for the high Eurozone unemployment and of failing to keep out “smugglers, terrorists (and) economic migrants”. She called on national leaders to come together to “build a Europe of nations to replace the totalitarian EU that we have today”.