Presidential Election 2022: At Reunion, Marine Le Pen surfs protest vote

On the trip on the island since Sunday, the NR candidate to the presidential elevation seduces some of the population, sensitive to his decommissioning speech. In the first round of the presidential election in 2017, she had obtained 23.46% of the votes at the meeting, 2 points more than his national score.

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The time of “softened” (altercations) at the arrival of Marine Le Pen to the meeting is over. Unlike 2012 and 2016, no protesters moved to Roland Garros Airport, Sunday 19, even though the Local Support Committee at Emmanuel Macron launched a call for voting against the National Gathering Candidate (RN) on behalf of “Living together at the meeting which is a land of miscegenation”.

After presented on Tuesday, December 14 his “project for the overseas”, Marine Le Pen came to decline in the two French departments of the Indian Ocean, Mayotte and then the meeting. The opportunity to recall all his “affection” and his “passion” for the ultramarine territories, “a jewel for France”. The candidate RN considers that since the withdrawal of Jacques Chirac’s political life, “the overseas inhabitants seem to arouse a disinterest and feel abandoned by the successive governments”. That’s why it promises a multisectoral state ministry for overseas and a “Great Program Law on Fifteen years”.

These two movements allow him to cajole his constituents but also to mark his singularity vis-à-vis his direct rival, Eric Zemmour. By its presence, Marine Le Pen intends to show that the latter does not cultivate the same proximity and the same interest in the ultramarins, invisible in the video formalizing his candidacy. “As for the overseas, I am the most advanced candidate,” she said at the televised newspaper meeting, Sunday night. My program is worked, accurate, concrete and who has the most Will for France. “

The RN arrived at the regional

While his qualifying in the second round is far from acquired, the leader of the Rn knows can count on the meeting on a precious voice tank. In the first round of the 2017 presidential election, she had made a score of 23.46%, compared with 21.3% in the whole of France, arriving at the top of ten municipalities on twenty-four. Nothing to do with its 10.31% 2012. In the second round, 39.7% of voters had brought their votes. A result well above its national score (33.9%). More striking, in the European elections of 2019, a few months after the beginning of the crisis of “yellow vests” particularly violent at the meeting, the list RN led by Jordan Bardella, supported by Marine Le Pen, had happened in the lead with 39, 74% by realizing the Grand Slam in the twenty-four communes, even in Saint-Denis and Saint-Pierre, Fief respectively from the Socialist Party and the Party the Republicans. Never-seen in the island.

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