The far-right leader began a two-day visit this Sunday, January 5, to the island in the Indian Ocean, where the RN achieved excellent scores in previous elections and has been at the center of the political game since the passage of the cyclone. Chido.
The leader of the National Rally deputies, Marine Le Pen, began a two-day visit to Mayotte this Sunday, January 5, where she plans to meet rescuers and disaster victims three weeks after the passage of Cyclone Chido, and eight days before the back to school.
Failing to provide 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 [et] of affection for our Mahorais compatriots”, said its spokesperson Laurent Jacobelli on Saturday on France Inter. The far-right leader arrived on the devastated island “at the beginning of the afternoon, by a military flight”, as those around him explained before the trip.
Once there, she immediately attacked the “Mayotte standing” plan prepared by the government: “It 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 then denounced, as usual, «l’immigration clandestine» : “Forgive me for being the first […] to have said that making promises to make subsidies, giving money to Mayotte would be of no use if we do not resolve the problem of illegal immigration”particularly from the neighboring Comoros.
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 is demanding their descent”, thus assures the elected Mahorese RN to the Assembly Anchya Bamana.
A less hostile welcome than for Macron
In this sense, Marine Le Pen promises to“amend” the emergency bill which will be presented next Wednesday to the Council of Ministers and must be examined the following week in Parliament, for adoption hoped by the executive before the end of January. She had warned that she intended to exercise “additional pressure on the government”.
-If we do not yet know exactly what the rest of Marine Le Pen’s program will be like, the reception promises to be much less hostile in any case than for the Head of State, who was heckled during his visit, some just days after the disaster. A challenge that 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 collective of citizens of Mayotte, Fatihou Ibrahim.
But for others, Marine Le Pen’s presence is at best a non-event. “I don’t see what she can bring us at the moment,” judge Anfida, a 32-year-old care worker interviewed 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 (Horizons) is more conciliatory: “I will judge on the evidence,” declares the Minister of the Civil Service in the Tribune Sunday, noting that the finalist of the last two presidential elections “did not make a caricatured speech on the Prime Minister’s visit” François Bayrou at the start of the week.
Updated at 4 p.m. with the addition of the arrival of Marine Le Pen in Mayotte and her first declarations.
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