At Marine Le Pen’s HQ, activists jubilantly celebrated the wave of the RN which swept through Pas-de-Calais.
Special correspondent to Hénin-Beaumont
Hélène took a four-hour train ride during the day to go and vote in Hénin-Beaumont. On the left. This teacher at a vocational high school in Jeumont, on the border with Belgium, hoped to see “a grin instead of a smile” on the face of Marine Le Pen, whom she prefers to call “the Lady”. She was already planning to repeat the same journey for the second round. It won’t be worth it. Like 38 other deputies, Marine Le Pen was elected in the first round. And with 58% of the votes, against 25% for his opponent from the Popular Front, supported by the general secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier. It was Steeve Briois, the mayor of Hénin-Beaumont, who came to announce the precise score of “Marine”, in front of several hundred activists exulting with joy, all coming with the certainty of a victory for their champion.
Solène Vary
Order to keep quiet for young activists
“It’s for my children!”, shouts a sixty-year-old blonde in a wheelchair seated in the front row. Young people the age of his offspring…
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