After a halftone meeting in Paris in early April, the national rally hopes to refuel in Narbonne for its May 1st. Jordan Bardella and Marine will launch their first milestones there for their municipal campaign hoping to win several cities next March.
Bye bye the tribute to Jeanne d’Arc in the heart of Paris for the 1st-May, hello the beaches of Aude. After Le Havre and Perpignan, direction Narbonne for Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen. The place owes nothing to chance when the national rally is well won large cities in the south of France during the next municipal elections.
“We have an anchoring, activists, good vibe and desires to go and get town halls in a relatively close perimeter. It was the ideal place for a 1st-May,” said a close to the president of RN deputies with BFMTV.
“What good times”
The movement plays at home in the department. He paid the luxury of winning in 2022 and then in 2024 the 3 deputies of the territory, however historically anchored on the left. Narbonne thus had the deputy Léon Blum, at the time of the Popular front.
“Marine Le Pen has only spent moments here. She necessarily wants to come back to it,” says MP Fréderic Falcon all smiles.
It must be said that for her last campaign trip before the first round of the last presidential election, the Narbonnais had made her welcome, to the point that clusters of high school students had massaged in front of the restaurant where she had lunch in the hope of obtaining a selfie.
With huge success at the key: she had won 54.9% of the votes in the second round, very far from her score of 41.45% in the rest of the country.
turn the page of the Paris Minding of Paris
Almost a month to the day after the conviction of Marine Le Pen to five years of ineligibility with immediate application for which she appealed and which lesses her chances of being able to appear in 2027, the party also needed a large mobilization in conquered terrain to cheer up.
It must be said that the last meeting organized by the party on April 5 left a bitter taste. Mounted in an emergency in Paris in the wake of the court decision, Marine Le Pen only had a relatively sparse crowd.
“If you ask me if it will do us good to have a little positive attitude and see the French who support us, I tell you yes. I need sun and smiles at the moment,” said an RN deputy.
A “force demonstration” before the municipal
Obviously anxious to turn the page, Jordan Bardella as Marine Le Pen could discuss their hopes for the municipal elections for a long time. The challenge promises to be Herculean: manage to drop several cities of average magnitude in its bag and above all integrate as widely as possible municipal councils.
A challenge while the RN only has a dozen cities throughout France and is almost absent from all the municipal councils. But the flame party believes in it, especially in the south of France.
The deputy for Aude Christophe Barthès is in the starting blocks to conquer Carcassonne, just like the deputy Laure Lavalette in Toulon. Other large cities seem to be winnings such as Nîmes, Nice with Éric Ciotti or others of more modest size such as Argelès-sur-Mer or Canet-en-Roussillon.
“The municipal elections should reserve surprises,” hopes aside the European deputy Julien Sanchez, campaign director for the municipal elections, seeing an important test for our local establishment “.
Transform databases into a candidates list
This is that this meeting in a room that can accommodate up to 5,000 people also aims to recover thousands of contact details. Sympathizers who participate in the raout are indeed invited upstream or on site to give their email and phone number to the party.
“We have the subject of winning town halls but also to have municipal councilors. And it requires having a fine territorial network that we do not have. The databases do not make miracles but it can help to put up lists,” explains a European deputy who closely follows the file.
On the left, we can feel that part of the municipal campaign launches this 1st-May in Narbonne. Several associations including Greenpeace and the Human Rights line will be present for a rally of “social and anti -fascist response” with the former presidential candidate for the NPA, Philippe Poutou.
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