In Brittany, Marine Le Pen surfs on the disorder of the right and launches its regional campaign
Marine Le Pen with the local RN candidate, Florent de Kersauson, in La Trinite-sur-Mer on May 6, 2021. AFP - SEBASTIEN SALOM-GOMIS
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After the departure of Hubert Falco, mayor of Toulon, it is a heavyweight of the right who is leaving LR: the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, the announcement in
Le Figaro
, sickened by the imbroglio around the union LREM / LR that he wished for the regions in PACA.
A chaos on the right on which Marine Le Pen is surfing.
The president of the RN, presidential candidate was this Thursday, May 6 in Brittany to launch the regional campaign.
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With our special
correspondent in La Trinité-sur-Mer,
Anne Soetemondt
“
Well, the start of the campaign is going well, isn't it?
“Asks Marine Le Pen.
“
Very well
,” answers Gilles Pennelle, “
the PACA effect is starting to be felt in Brittany.
.. "
Sitting in the sun in her family stronghold of La Trinité-sur-Mer with Gilles Pennelle, head of the RN list in Brittany, Marine Le Pen is reveling in the storm that the French right is going through: "
That is something that cannot be not happen to us.
On our lists, there is not a guy who votes Macron.
You can be quite at ease.
"
The opportunity to send a message to voters on the right.
"
I believe that there are many voters coming from the right-wing family and who realize that the only movement likely to create an electric shock in the country is the RN
", continues Marine Le Pen.
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Symbol of the profit that the RN could derive from the disorder on the right, the rallying of a Breton figure: Florent de Kersauson.
Friend of the Le Pen family, founder of the Route du rhum, disappointed by the right, he took the head of the RN list in Morbihan.
"
I believe,
" he said, "
like many right-wing voters," that I have to get closer to what is the real right (…) The RN, I wonder if this is not the real Republican front.
How are we going to save the republic?
"
In recent days, Marine Le Pen has garnered other right-wing support, in Occitania and in the Grand Est.
Small fish, but symbols that the lines move, we salivate at the RN.
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