Inspiration is to be found across the Atlantic: “They will be buses à la Donald Trump”, explains a leader of the National Rally. You know, those big buses that you see in the United States with the candidate’s photo, slogan and name on the outside, and campaign material, posters, leaflets, goodies on the inside. pens, pins, and caps …
That’s kind of what Marine Le Pen wants to do. “About twenty rolling hotlines”, as described by a spokesperson, will leave Reims on February 5, in the wake of the first meeting of Marine Le Pen. Departure from Reims, and “arrival on April 24 at the Elysée”, answers in a joke a strategist LePéniste.
April 24, the second round of the presidential election, it is far … So initially, the buses will rather go to the 13 metropolitan regions. One to three buses per region, depending on the double geographic and electoral criteria. The larger the region, the more promising it is for Marine Le Pen, the more buses there will be. Three vehicles will crisscross the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur and Grand Est regions, against only one for Île-de-France, where the RN scores lower. Note: all buses are not the same size. The big ones will stop in the towns, but smaller coaches are planned for steep roads and small villages.
Beyond the display, the coaches are intended to multiply the candidate, her image at least, and distribute the leaflets and the presidential project on “5,000 markets” – the objective set by the campaign team. Marine Le Pen will be present in some of these markets, she who likes to define herself as “the candidate from the province and territories”.
That’s not all: the buses must also be used to mobilize an electorate who had been lacking during the regional meetings of last June, who had abstained. The teams that will be on board are also responsible for motivating the French to go and vote and help them, for example, to make their proxies online.