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“We’re going to go all the way, huh. We are not called Le Pen for nothing! Marine Le Pen tries to keep smiling. The candidate for the National Rally makes her way through the narrow aisles of the small Sainte-Anne market, this Sunday, March 27, escorted by a beating sun… and the sound of pans. Around her, a cluster of sympathizers tries to ring out “Marine president” to drown out the echo of “Le Pen, get out!” launched by a handful of hostile onlookers, including nationalist activists. “We came out on top in the Europeans, after all! ” attempts to play down the candidate, who had, it is true, won 23.71% of the votes in 2019. But not everything will have gone as planned for this very first official trip as a candidate for the Le Pen daughter in Guadeloupe.
Saturday, it was under the cheers of about thirty sympathizers that she had nevertheless been welcomed when she got off the plane, before starting 24 hours of flea jumps on the island. But already, the first appointment is cut short. The drinking water production plant she was supposed to visit is closed – it is in front that she will make her short statement. “In 2022, for a French department not to have running water, drinking water, this is not acceptable! protests the one who has planned the creation of an Overseas Ministry of State in her program.
VIDEO. Guadeloupe: demonstrators disrupt a program with Marine Le Pen
Continuation of the misadventures at the beginning of the evening, around 7:30 p.m. While recording a program on a terrace of her hotel, Marine Le Pen is taken to task by nationalist activists. Protected by her bodyguard, she is exfiltrated, while the fifteen troublemakers come out of the hotel on their own, shouting “Le Pen racist”, “Le Pen outside”. A complaint is filed, the responsibility of the prefect questioned by the RN camp, for lack of security of the hotel. Emmanuel Macron said he was “shocked” by the invectives. This Sunday, Marine Le Pen regretted that “a few fanatics on the far left are trying to prevent democracy from functioning properly”.
If her whole weekend was not heckled – she also met a local farmer and exchanged with some inhabitants in a “lolo”, traditional grocery store – the Guadeloupe getaway will not have kept all of its promise. Marine Le Pen thus wished to continue to embody “proximity” in the face of “gigantism” deemed disconnected from the Trocadéro de Zemmour, but above all to complete its de-demonization by showing that it is welcome everywhere. His stopover in the West Indies risks leaving him with a bitter taste.