Marine Le Pen is in Mayotte until Tuesday January 7. Arriving on Sunday at the end of the day, the leader of the RN deputies begins a marathon day on Monday meeting the victims of Cyclone Chido.
She planned, with her delegation, to tour Grande-Terre, the main island of the archipelago. On the program: meeting with caregivers at the Mayotte general hospital – now 76% operational, according to the Ministry of the Interior – with a visit to the maternity ward, the largest in France. The president of the RN group in the Assembly then intends to tour the island to meet elected officials and residents in the north (Dzoumonié, Hamjago), the west (Sohoa, Sada) and the southwest (Boueni), places that are still difficult to access.
The far-right leader is on conquered ground in Mayotte, where her party was acclaimed in the last presidential and legislative elections. The flame party even obtained one of its first two overseas parliamentary seats in July.
But from the first hours of her trip, Marine Le Pen set the tone: her priority is indeed the fight against illegal immigration. Thus, with her foot barely on Mahoran soil, she greeted the firefighters and civil security gendarmes based on the tarmac of Dzaoudzi airport. Very quickly, the conversation begins on the management of the waste left by the passage of the cyclone, in particular the jails which have not already been reused to rebuild the slums.
The leader of the deputies of the National Rally is delighted when she is told that they are picked up and evacuated from the archipelago. “The whole prison is going to leave? That’s quite a good thing”she says. The only way to prevent the reconstruction of slums according to Marine Le Pen: prevent illegal immigrants from arriving in Mayotte. A fight for which she takes credit for motherhood.
“Forgive me for being the first to have said that making promises to give money to Mayotte would be of no use if we did not resolve the problem of illegal immigration.
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“We can continue to pretend, but I think the Mahorais are a little fed up with it,” she argued, in reference to migratory pressure, particularly from neighboring Comoros, on the department, the poorest in France.
The boss of RN deputies warns: if the fight against immigration does not appear in the emergency law presented by the government this week, her group will try to modify the text by tabling amendments. Faced with irregular immigration, François Bayrou had pleaded for a population census and raised the “question” of returning to land rights in Mayotte, already restricted in the archipelago.
