2023-05-01 11:41:29
The RN returns to its May 1 celebration, this time with a banquet in Le Havre, against a backdrop of protest from the left
The far-right party is expecting around 1,400 of its activists for a banquet in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), Monday at midday, a way to relaunch its traditional celebration of the 1is– May formerly dedicated to Joan of Arc, now renamed “Festival of the Nation”.
“It’s a social choice in the current context”explained a framework of the National Rally (RN) to justify the holding of this rally in the working town, arguing “big scores” obtained by the party during the legislative elections of last year by the Frontist candidates in several constituencies of Seine-Maritime, lands hitherto not very promising for the far right. “What we are playing is the people against Macron”he continued, against a background of latent challenge to the pension reform, which the RN opposed without however participating in the processions or truly making its voice heard in the Hemicycle.
Marine Le Pen, who is due to close the party day after a speech by the new president, Jordan Bardella, hears “to take stock of the project of deconstruction, dispossession and expropriation of Emmanuel Macron”she explained in an interview published on Sunday in Le Parisien-Today in France. Castigating the executive, the boss of the far-right party again felt that there was only “three possible ways out in a crisis: the dissolution of the Assembly, the referendum or the resignation of the President”.
The RN banquet will be contested by a counter-demonstration organized at the call of several left and far left associations and activists, as well as the Le Havre rapper Médine. It will be held at a good distance from the Lepenist raout, planned for the Carré des docks, where the mayor of the city, and ex-Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, launched his Horizons party eighteen months ago.
“There is no worse enemy for workers than the National Rally”, “the proof Emmanuel Macron relies very heavily on the RN in his strategy of decay”argued the leader of the CGT Sophie Binet on France 2 Monday morning, betting on the fact that qu'” there will be at least ten times more demonstrators in the union procession [havrais] », than to the gathering of the extreme right. She added that the RN “has never had its place and never will have it” in a union procession.
Laurent Berger (CFDT) retorted about Madame Le Pen and the far right on Monday morning on Franceinfo: “It will never be the friend of the workers or the friend of democracy. “The National Rally is deadly”, and Marine Le Pen “understood that part of its future is being played out on cultivated social resentment [mais] she doesn’t care about the workers “, he added.
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