France: Marie Le Pen in campaign on the lands of Xavier Bertrand

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Xavier Bertrand announced his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election. He is currently president of the Hauts de France region, coveted by the National Rally. March 24, 2021 © AFP

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Marine le Pen, candidate for next year's presidential election, is visiting the Hauts de France this Friday.

Objective, to support the RN candidate in the regional election, Sébastien Chenu, who dreams of snatching the presidency of the region Xavier Bertrand.

But the stake is not only regional.

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Former minister of François Fillon Nicolas Sarkozy, current president of the Hauts de France region, Xavier Bertrand is also a candidate for the presidential election of 2022. And even if Marine Le Pen declares that he does not believe that "

Xavier Bertrand can gather around him sufficient votes to consider reaching the second round of the presidential election

 ”, since the latter officially declared her candidacy for the presidential election two weeks ago, she takes every opportunity to speak about the president of the Hauts-de-France region .

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He has nevertheless been a minister of governments which have done absolutely nothing, nothing against immigration, nothing against Islamism, nothing effective against delinquency - which continues to worsen - against insecurity. .. "

And she insists, recalling in hollow the various positions occupied by Xavier Bertrand, in charge of social questions:

 "I would like ladies and gentlemen journalists that you ask the question to Xavier Bertrand, when he says that he wants retirement at 65 years old, but with how many years?

".

The presidential election in sight

It is therefore not insignificant that Marine Le Pen is making her first trip in a regional campaign suspended from the evolution of the virus in the Hauts de France this Friday.

If the RN candidate won his bet to snatch the presidency of the region from Xavier Bertrand, it would not only be a regional victory because Xavier Bertrand has already announced it: if he loses the presidency of the region, it will be over. of the presidential election.

"It's a question of legitimacy," he explained at the beginning of April to our colleagues from France Info, because "

 if six years later (the election at the head of the region, Editor's note) I do not have the confidence

 " of voters of Hauts-de-France, " 

I cannot go and seek the confidence of 67 million French people 

".

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