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Le Pen in Mayotte wants to “listen” to its inhabitants and put pressure on the government
The leader of the deputies of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, arrived in Mayotte on Sunday to “listen” to its inhabitants for two days, judging that the reconstruction plan planned by the government after the passage of cyclone Chido “does not go far enough far”.No support committee on arrival or welcome with wreaths of flowers this time for the leader of the far right, given the context in this territory where she is also garnering excellent electoral scores, but a shot of political pressure. The government's plan called “Mayotte standing” does not “go far enough because I think it is missing an important component which is a diplomatic component without which many of the things that are promised will not be kept”, she said. declared when she got off a civil security plane at Dzaoudzi airport. “Without solving the problem of illegal immigration, nothing will be useful,” she added, in reference to the strong migratory pressure , notably from the neighboring Comoros, which suffers from this poorest department in France. And to promise to “amend” in this sense the emergency bill for Mayotte, which must be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. Failing to provide tons of aid, or to be able to announce measures like the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron then Prime Minister François Bayrou before her, Ms. Le Pen said she came first to “listen” to the people of Mahor and their “suffering”, to become their “spokesperson”, three weeks after the passage of the cyclone Chido.- “Full of fish” – “We are still faced with an emergency. There is still half the population who does not have electricity, there is still a population who do not have “water, which has no food”, she argued. However, according to the Ministry of the Interior on Saturday, “100% of the population is connected to running water” and “69.7% of the general population is supplied” with electricity, “despite significant disparities between municipalities” “I hope that the suffering of the Mahorais is enough to put pressure on the government,” said Marine Le Pen, who then met soldiers and firefighters on a base used by civil security, and must answer questions from the radio Kwezi. On Monday she should visit the hospital center and meet elected officials and residents in the north of the island. In front of the Mamoudzou market, the capital of the archipelago, deserted on this Sunday afternoon, Mohamed Ali told the AFP that “Marine Le Pen is at home here”. Moreover, “the Mahorais have +mahorized+ her first name and call her Mariama”, he underlines. “With (her positions) on immigration” Marine Le Pen is at ease in Mayotte, adds- he. “It's like a fisherman who likes to fish. For Marine Le Pen, in Mayotte, there are plenty of fish.” The RN and its leader were indeed acclaimed in the last presidential and legislative elections. The party with the flame is even obtained one of its first two overseas parliamentary seats in July. – “Political recovery” – The reception promises to be in any case less hostile than for the head of state, who was heckled during his visit, just a few days after the disaster. A taking on which he will then attribute to “people from the National Rally”. “That elected officials of this national stature think of us in these troubled times is important”, believes the president of the citizens' collective of Mayotte. , Fatihou Ibrahime. Conversely, Chafika Madi, met on rue du Commerce, considers this trip “useless”, like those of other political leaders. The important thing is rather “to send water, something to eat and rebuild”, considers the 36-year-old trader. Green MP Sandrine Rousseau castigated on Sunday on BFMTV an operation of “political recovery” by Ms Le Pen. “Before talking about immigration, let's first talk about the condition of people,” added the elected official. In a joint column published on the Figaro website on the day of Ms. Le Pen's visit, the Minister of State responsible for Overseas Manuel Valls, and his colleagues from the Interior Bruno Retailleau and the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu promise that “firm measures” against irregular immigration to Mayotte will appear in one of the reconstruction bills of the archipelago. “Without dealing with the migration issue, there is no future for Mayotte”, agrees Manuel Valls in an interview in the JDD. Faced with irregular immigration (the department has 320,000 inhabitants according to the 'Insee, but perhaps 100,000 to 200,000 more with undocumented immigrants), François Bayrou had pleaded for a “general and precise census of the population” and asked the “question” of returning to land rights in Mayotte, already restricted in the archipelago.gbh-ola-gf-cc-are/jmt/gvy
