Here the whistles and “Marine get away” du Vaucluse seem far away. The day after a hectic market in the department, Marine Le Pen chose Eure-et-Loir for her trip on Saturday April 16 in the morning. A walkabout in Saint Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, a town of 4,000 inhabitants where she came out ahead in the first round, with 37% of the vote. Emmanuel Macron, he is in Marseille for its meeting between two laps.
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First step of the candidate for Marine Le Pen in Maryland, a PMU bar. Here, no one to challenge the candidate if not to congratulate her or take a selfie, with a “we will support you” or “I am with you”. In the middle of porcelain dogs and other garden gnomes, in a small flea market, Marine Le Pen exchanges with two saleswomen already conquered: “I can’t wait to be able to put the VAT at 0% on basic necessities for you, and to massively lower the VAT on energy”. “We can’t wait to see it, we’re all waiting” respond in chorus the two inhabitants.
The candidate was able to reassure herself, show beautiful images of inhabitants who are favorable to her. To reassure and reassure too, again and again. Friday in the Vaucluse, a veiled lady in her sixties questioned her on her proposal to ban the veil everywhere. A lady who told her that she had chosen to put on the veil after becoming a grandmother, and the request causes embarrassment for the candidate who sometimes evokes a “Islamist uniform”. So Saturday morning, she returns there in Eure-et-Loir. When asked if that doesn’t make her want to change position, Marine Le pen replies: “Of course it concerns me. I know very well what the problems are related to the veil. I know very well that elderly women put it on, but the fact remains that there are thousands of women in France who are obliged to put on this veil.”
Here, on conquered ground, Marine Le Pen softens her position in words and takes shelter behind a hypothetical parliamentary work. “There will be debates in the National Assembly anyway. It will have its say” explains the candidate.
“Incidentally, I remind you that thanks to my citizens’ initiative referendum, 500,000 citizens can still ask to have the French people vote on the repeal of a law that they don’t like.”
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And the candidate concludes by assuring that she cannot do “enjoyeds democratic than this functioning there”. One way to try to ensure that this controversial proposal does not become his band-aid at the end of the campaign.