Marine Le Pen is to celebrate May 1st in Metz, surrounded by candidates from the list of the National Rally in the European elections, on land where the far-right party is firmly established, and formerly promised to his former right hand, Florian Philippot . This is the second year that the unfortunate presidential candidate of 2017 is moving away from Paris for May 1, which was for years a demonstration of power for the National Front during "Feasts of Joan of Arc", on the place of the Pyramids of the capital.
"Patriotic Banquet"
At 25 days of the European, the head of the list, Jordan Bardella, and his main colistiers must participate Wednesday in a "banquet patriotic", before a speech of the president of the RN. If no reference to Joan of Arc appears in the "patriotic banquet" of Metz, a wreath laying at the foot of the statue of the virgin in Paris is still provided by Jean-Marie Le Pen, former president of the FN, excluded from his daughter's party since 2015.
According to an interactive Harris study and Agence Epoka published Sunday, the RN list is credited with 21% of voting intentions, behind that of Renaissance carried by the Republic on the move, to 23.5%. Marine Le Pen intends to "nationalize" the vote, and has already called for "vote to express (his) disagreements with the national policy of Emmanuel Macron". After Nice in 2018, where the boss of the far right France had intended to take its leadership of the nationalists in Europe, this May 1, 2019 must address more national concerns in this region stricken by the industrial decline and favorable to the RN: the first round of the presidential election in 2017, Marine Le Pen came first in the Moselle with 28.35% of the vote.