Regional elections in France: Marine le Pen's RN wants to surprise Paca

Marine Le Pen and Thierry Mariani who leads the list of the National Rally in Paca display a confident smile a few hours before the vote for the regional elections.

Toulon, June 17, 2021. AFP - CHRISTOPHE SIMON

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Last day of a tense campaign in Paca, a region where the RN could create a surprise on Sunday.

Ex-LR, former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, Thierry Mariani leads the National Rally list and could win.

Coming to support him in the home stretch, Marine le Pen wanted to reassure voters to push them to take the plunge and vote RN.

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in Toulon,

Anne Soetemondt

The polls may be good.

And even very good.

Marine le Pen and Thierry Mariani know it: nothing is settled and an anti-RN reflex is always possible on Sunday.

So a message in the home straight: play down.

Marine Le Pen:

“What will happen if voters trust Thierry Mariani?

Well, this region will experience what should be called an alternation, what could be more natural ”.

"We have tried everything for 50 years"

Dramatize and court again and again the right-wing voters troubled by an outgoing regional president who opened his lists to supporters of Emmanuel Macron: " 

The sincere right-wing voters in our region understood that they were betrayed, that if Sunday 27 , Mr. Muselier's list won, it would be an opportunity to sand the champagne first at the Élysée… ”.

We must convince the voters that this time: Voting RN is possibly voting for the winner: " 

This time, your vote can change everything".

Will voters in this region of South-East France break the glass ceiling?

More and more people are saying it, at least openly: they will vote for their region to go to the extreme right:

“We have tried everything for 50 years.

We must try the National Front.

We need change and I think it is time for France to move ”.

The National Front, today the National Assembly, has never yet managed a region.

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