Her comments come as France’s economy minister said the European Union needs a new road map that should be devised in consultation with voters and then put to a referendum, as Paris sought for ways to handle the fallout at home from the Brexit vote.
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Far-right politicians in France are calling for their country to leave the European Union after branding Britain’s historic referendum a “victory for freedom”.
Italy’s foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni also said it was a “wakeup call” for the bloc which should prompt leaders into relaunching “common policies for growth, for migration and common defense”. David Cameron has announced he will step down as PM.
Ms Le Pen said Hollande “will take no notice of all the signals that have been sent for years by people in Europe and France, not even after the British people’s decision to leave the EU”.
Martin Schulz, the German president of the European parliament, regretted that Britain had chose to go its own way. “The French should have the right to choose!” she wrote on Twitter. “As I’ve been saying for years, we must now have the same referendum in France and other European Union countries”. Within minutes of the result being confirmed earlier this morning, Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders had called for similar polls in France and the Netherlands.
The Netherlands faces a general election in March and some opinion polls suggest Mr Wilders is leading. “Let the Dutch people decide”.
Mateo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s anti-immigration Northern League, tweeted: “Hurrah for the courage of free citizens!” “Heart, head and pride defeated lies, threats and blackmail. THANKS UK, now it’s our turn”, he said in a tweet.
Berlin is wary about anti-EU sentiment in the bloc’s western heartland, including France and the Netherlands, where people are anxious about refugees and terrorism, the Financial Times reported.
“There is no future any more (for the EU)”, Wilders said.
The French president said he would meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday for urgent talks ahead of a scheduled European Council summit in Brussels where leaders will discuss the fallout from the vote.
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She said on Friday that if elected next year she would launch swift negotiations with the European Union to win back national sovereignty and then hold a referendum on membership.
