In May, do what you like. While she allows herself a few days of rest in a secret place to breathe after the presidential election – “We piss her off a bit with lots of stuff”, concedes a relative – Marine Le Pen will be discreet on the occasion of the May 1, traditional day of homage to Joan of Arc for the RN. It is the interim president Jordan Bardella who will lay a wreath at the foot of the statue of the Maid in Place Saint-Augustin in Paris, at 11 a.m.
It is also he who will lead a videoconference at the end of the afternoon with the candidates for the legislative elections as well as the departmental officials in order to give strategic axes and mobilize the troops. “Marine Le Pen will say hello there at least”, we concede. As a foretaste of the candidate’s possible withdrawal from purely partisan issues: it is not certain that she will resume the presidency of the RN in September, which she had temporarily entrusted to Jordan Bardella in the fall. latest.
His father will lay a wreath at the foot of his statue of Joan of Arc in Saint-Cloud
The two previous May Days had already been greatly reduced due to the Covid, Marine Le Pen quickly laying a wreath in the morning before meeting her fans online. She ended the traditional May Day parade in 2016, replacing it with a “patriotic banquet”.
The last edition, in 2015, was marked by the irruption of three Femen as well as that of his father who, in the midst of a political-family conflict, had disrupted the smooth running of the demonstration. Jean-Marie Le Pen will not be outdone this year, since he will lay a wreath at the foot of his own statue of Joan of Arc, in the garden of the Montretout mansion in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-France). -Seine). A representation of the Saint who has long been enthroned in front of the party entrance in Nanterre but which the patriarch, who is the owner, did not forget to recover when the HQ moved to the Porte de Saint-Cloud in Paris.