2023-06-02 18:03:05
Cup of coffee in hand, Marine Le Pen is categorical, in this flowery and brick red courtyard at the back of a café in Artois: “Rosebushes need to be exposed due south. » Horticulture is a reassuring subject, made up of intangible rules. Senate elections are something else. You never really know what the unlabeled mayors of small rural towns, the deputies of various right-wing mayors, the councilors of a town hall drowned in an intermunicipality run by a local baron think.
While his trip was disrupted by leaks in the press of the report of the National Assembly’s commission of inquiry into foreign interference, Mme Le Pen approaches the September senatorial renewal with caution: “I am not Mrs. Irma. I won’t get started. If I give you an objective of two senators and it is much more, you will say that Madame Irma is useless. » One, two, three senators? More, as the prognosis Gilles Pennelle, general manager of the party ? In the wake of his failure in the 2020 municipal elections, the main thing will be to return to the Luxembourg Palace, the only far-right senator, the Marseillais Stéphane Ravier, having joined Eric Zemmour during the presidential campaign.
Concerts et ducasses
This Thursday 1is June in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, Mme Le Pen nods in his electoral department, Pas-de-Calais, in support of the party’s best chance for the senatorial ballot. In Pas-de-Calais, the head of the list is called Christopher Szczurek, soon to be 38 years old. Demonstrating against Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2002, Lepenist activist five years later after an epiphany on the virtues of assimilation; since then, essential pawn of the establishment of the extreme right in Hénin-Beaumont, which has made a splash in the department.
This soldier of “Marinism” is an affable man, endowed with an insurance and a clear speech to make most of the Lepenist neo-deputies jealous: under the gaze of the boss, he runs a long program of support for the mayors of small towns . He vilifies the intermunicipalities “too political”, the net zero artificialisation, would like to revalue the town hall secretaries and better fight against attacks and pressures aimed at city councilors. The RN, which is also mobilizing against the presence of reception centers for asylum seekers validated by the municipal councils, has a sense of contradiction.
The appointment of Mr. Szczurek by Jordan Bardella, president of the party, began a reconciliation between the latter and his protector, the deputy of Pas-de-Calais Bruno Bilde – they recently met face to face. For Steeve Briois, the mayor of Hénin-Beaumont, the choice was a matter of elementary logic: nine years ago his first deputy became established in the local landscape. He runs aperitifs-concerts and ducasses – fairgrounds in the north of France – in order to seduce mayors and municipal councilors without labels.
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