The National Gathering was successful Friday in Nîmes before the judge of the interim, which ordered the mayor of Thor, in the Vaucluse, to reconsider his decision not to make available to the party Saturday a communal hall for a meeting of Marine Le Pen.

The administrative court of Nîmes had been seized in summary by the RN after the mayor of the town, Yves Bayon de Noyer, had finally refused to rent him the hall of the town. It was there that Marine Le Pen had planned to hold its first meeting in the provinces for the European elections, with Jordan Bardella, his top list, and former Minister LR Thierry Mariani, who joined this list.

"It's going to be a monstrous snub." At the hearing on Friday, the mayor of Thor explained that he had been deceived, having initially received a request "from the RN officials of the department (for) a local meeting with 200 or 300 people", while it will eventually be of a "national meeting", in a room that can only accommodate 500 people. "I have an obligation, like all the mayors, to put the municipal hall at the disposal of political movements, I am a republican and I have done it in the past, especially two years ago for Marion Maréchal Le Pen", defended Yves Bayon de Noyer. But there "it's going to be a monstrous" barouf ", he accused, evoking his criminal responsibility in case of security problem. "If the room is refused, it is only against the criterion of the safety of people," had insisted the lawyer of the town of Thor.

Do not worry, tomorrow - one way or another - we see each other in the #Vaucluse! MLP #OnArrive

- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) January 18, 2019

In a statement, the RN welcomed this decision, even if it finally accepted "for the sake of appeasement (...) the proposal of the mayor of Thor (to hold his) meeting in a room of more large capacity, close to that originally planned ", the municipal gymnasium in this case.