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In the 7th district of the department, the New Popular Front is mobilizing, but in certain municipalities there are no activists. In Leers, where the RN made 40% in the Europeans, there were a few of them who went to several bars on Tuesday, during the match, to convince.
Under the TV screen at Liberty, in Leers (North), the regulars play belote, match or no match for the France team. The other customers don’t mind, paying attention on Tuesday to the French performance against Poland. The commune, 9,588 inhabitants, and 40.6% for the RN in European countries, has the appearance of a village, but lives on the outskirts of a large city, Roubaix. The PMU bar-tabac is very casual, with jokes from the owner’s energetic daughter, who knows her little world like the back of her hand. At the counter, light beer in front of them because they will have to keep up with the drinks all evening, the activists of the New Popular Front put on a good show, badges pinned in plain sight. With one desire: to regain ground. The strategy, “the silent presence, without trying to tell them what to think”, theorizes Valentin Przyluski, the substitute Karima Chouia, the candidate (Les Ecologistes) of the left alliance in the constituency. “This is the price we have to pay for not having been there.”
The 7th district of the North is known for being a moderate right-wing land, centrist for a long time, today Horizons with the outgoing MP, Félicie Gérard.
