GETTY Manuelle Valls accused the National Front of trying to kick out a local charity

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Last week, a far-right French mayor tried to get a local charity kicked out of its subsidised office space on grounds its ‘communist’ employees had been spreading pro-migrant propaganda, an action strongly condemned by prime minister Manuel Valls. Mr Valls said that the incident, which took place in Hayange, a town near the Franco-Belgian border, had helped show the National Front party’s true colours. “The National Front is my sworn enemy. When the extreme-right chooses to get rid of the Secours populaire, one of Hayange’s oldest charities, it shows the party’s true colours: they are both cynical and anti-working class.”

GETTY Le Pen fought back by saying the charity was getting involved in politics

But according to Marine Le Pen, Mr Valls is the one to have shown his own true colours by calling her party ‘the enemy’.

The National Front is my sworn enemy Manuelle Valls, French PM

Mrs Le Pen said that Mr Valls’s accusations were “extremely serious” and defended the far-right mayor’s decision. She said: “I think that Manuel Valls is the one to have shown the nation his own true colours by telling people that the National Front is the State’s enemy,” the presidential favourite told French television station France 2 on Monday. “Referring to 25 to 30 per cent of the French population as ‘the enemy’ when you are the country’s prime minister is very grave indeed,” she said.

GETTY Valls was criticised by Le Pen for calling a third of Frances population the enemy

Mrs Le Pen also said that her party had a lot of respect for the Secours populaire, but supported claims that its members were left-wing political activists who has started interfering in Hayange’s affairs. “They are not doing humanitarian work, they are getting involved in local politics,” she warned, before saying that the charity – who does not pay any rent on grounds it is a non-profit organisation – should remain neutral and “stick to relief work”. The far-right leader also spoke to France 2 about Sunday’s failed migrant referendum in Hungary, and said that allowing the European Commission to impose migrant quotas on member states was “unacceptable”. She said: “Ninety-five per cent of Hungarian voters said: ‘We want to be in control of our country’s fate’. I cannot understand how and why the European Commission is calling all the shots when it comes to local immigration policies. The EU cannot decide who is allowed to enter a member state, and who can stay. The people should decide.”

GETTY The far-right politician also attacked the EU for imposing migrant quotas on member states