Sunglasses on her nose and stack of posters bearing the image of her candidate in her hand, Marine Le Pen walks the aisles of the Marignane market (Bouches-du-Rhône), Tuesday, May 24. “We must go and vote in the legislative elections!”she says to the inhabitants. “Hello Madame Le Pen”, replies one of them. The former presidential candidate is campaigning with a strategy: to try to present herself as the only opponent to Emmanuel Macron, while the left has been talked about a lot in recent weeks.
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Marine Le Pen does not move to Marignane by chance: the constituency is “takeable”. This is why she chose one of her relatives, Franck Allisio, as a candidate. But the right-wing incumbent Éric Diard resists. Elected for the first time in 2002, this year he is one of the handful of Les Républicains candidates who have no macronist against him. The angle of attack is therefore all found for the National Rally candidate:
“If he is one of the rare candidates not to have an LREM competitor opposite, it is because he had to knock heavily on Emmanuel Macron’s door to reach this lame agreement which will mean that, if by unfortunately he is elected on June 19, that will make one more macronist. If I beat him, it will make one less macronist.
Franck Allisio, RN candidate in the 12th district of Bouches-du-Rhôneat franceinfo
On the market, facing Marine Le Pen, Éric Diard defends himself. “No, Emmanuel Macron is not with me. I am not Emmanuel Macron. Things are clear.” However, he remains vague as to his future in the event of re-election to the National Assembly. “I hope I will be in opposition, that there will be enough people in the right-wing opposition to make groups. For now, I don’t want to say anything.”
Faced with this well-established outgoing candidate and in charge of the RN, the united left is in ambush. The rebellious Isabelle Chauvin therefore reminds voters of a memory: the failed municipal experience of the FN in the region, in Marignane and Vitrolles, at the end of the 1990s. “These are people who broke society and did nothing for their community or for culture. They threw away discrimination. We remember them, their negligence, their presumptuousness, their excesses. C That’s all. It marked the people who reject them.” But the argument does not necessarily work. “I have no memory, I tell you seriously”admits Nathalie bluntly. “It’s forgotten, we have another point of view of the RN currently.”
For his part, the Lutte Ouvrière candidate François Roche also intends to warn against the RN risk. “Marine Le Pen is an enemy of the workers because she is not for struggles. We have never seen her demonstrate during a day of action or a strike, when we were fighting for pensions or benefits. wages. It also divides the workers by making believe that it is between French and foreigners that the question is played out.” Finally, Franck Allisio will also have to deal with a representative of Reconquest!, Jacques Clostermann, who refused to respond to franceinfo.
All these risks could well make this promised land of the RN remain an impregnable land. But the main one for Marine Le Pen’s party remains, here as elsewhere, abstention. The voters of the National Rally are the most sensitive to it. Vote in legislative elections “no use”postulates Adeline, who voted for Marine Le Pen in both rounds of the presidential election. “As long as she wasn’t elected president, I don’t see what’s the point of voting for that”she slips, fatalistic.