Marine Le Pen expected this Sunday in Mayotte

The leader of the National Rally deputies, Marine Le Pen, begins a two-day visit to Mayotte this Sunday, where she plans to meet rescuers and victims three weeks after the passage of Cyclone Chido. Ms. Le Pen must arrive on the devastated island “early in the afternoon, by a military flight», specifies those around him.

Once there, “she will meet civil security, then go to meet the residents», avant «a time of discussion planned for the end of the afternoon in Mamoudzou with disaster victims“. The rest of his program Monday and Tuesday is not yet known, but “the objective is to meet the victims on several points of the island».

Failing to bring tons of aid, or to be able to announce measures like Emmanuel Macron then François Bayrou before her, this visit by Marine Le Pen is “a sign of support (and) affection for our Mahorais compatriots», Said its spokesperson Laurent Jacobelli on Saturday on France Inter. The far-right opponent also intends to exercise “additional pressure on the government», a few days before the presentation of an emergency bill for Mayotte, MP Thomas Ménage also highlighted on franceinfo on Friday.

“Marine Le Pen is very popular in Mayotte”

In this poorest department in France, plagued by strong migratory pressure particularly from the neighboring Comoros, the RN and its leader were acclaimed in the last presidential and legislative elections.

The flame party even obtained one of its first two overseas parliamentary seats last July. “Marine Le Pen is very popular in Mayotte“, Or “the population demands its descent», assures the Mahorese representative to the Assembly Anchya Bamana. The reception therefore promises to be less hostile than for the head of state, who was heckled during his visit, just a few days after the disaster. A attack that he will then attribute to “people from the National Rally».

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«It is important that elected officials of this national stature think of us in these troubled times.», Estimates the president of the collective of citizens of Mayotte, Fatihou Ibrahim. But for others, Ms Le Pen's presence is at best a non-event. “I don't see what she can bring us at the moment“, judges Anfida, a 32-year-old care worker interviewed on Friday by AFP, when Abou, a 28-year-old TotalEnergies employee, considers that “all these politicians are coming to bluff us».

On the executive side, Laurent Marcangeli is more conciliatory: “I will judge on piece», declares the Minister of the Civil Service in La Tribune Dimanche, noting that the finalist of the last two presidential elections “had not made a caricatured speech on the Prime Minister's visit» at the start of the week.