Since polls show that approximately 70 percent of the French are wary of leaving the EU, especially since the Brexit vote and Trump's expressions of hostility toward the EU and NATO, Le Pen apparently concluded that she could not win the presidency without allaying fears of an abrupt Frexit. So she backtracked. Her niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen announced on April 30 that instead of holding a referendum on exiting the EU within six months of the election, as originally promised, there would be “a lengthy process,” lasting perhaps “several years,” because the original proposal was neither practical nor legal under existing treaties.
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