The Vaucluse and the city of Carpentras are a territory traditionally marked by a strong National Rally vote.
Marion Maréchal had been elected deputy there in 2012, one of the only two elected Lepenists to then make their entry into the Assembly.
While the rallyings to Eric Zemmour multiply, what atmosphere reigns there in Carpentras?
A privileged land of the National Rally, the Vaucluse and the city of Carpentras now seem to lean towards Eric Zemmour.
Evidenced by the presence this market morning of a small troop of activists of the far-right candidate, ex-polemicist of CNews and
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Tracts in hand in front of the church, they set out to convince the inhabitants of this town which elected Marion Maréchal deputy in 2012. It was then, with Gilbert Collard, elected in the neighboring Gard, the only one to make his entry into the hemicycle.
Ten years later, "the little one", as some of her voters affectionately call her and according to the Provençal term, could soon be running for the presidential reconquest candidate.
She “thought[t] about it” at least, she said a handful of weeks ago.
"I understand his hesitation out of loyalty to his family"
A step that Charles La Hire hopes to see her take quickly.
“There are talks.
If she joins us, we will leave her the 3rd constituency [the one where she was elected in 2012]”, advances this young supporter of Eric Zemmour in his full beige jacket suit with a blue-white-red tie clip and with a purple handkerchief.
His anticipated rallying to Eric Zemmour, although Marion Maréchal had already withdrawn from the RN, is hardly surprising here.
Bertrand de la Chesnaie, head of the list supported by the RN for the municipal elections of 2020 in Carpentras (39.1%), has been appointed campaign director for the one who is shaking up the hierarchy on the far right.
"I understand her hesitation out of loyalty to her family," says Willy, who remains convinced that she will join Eric Zemmour sooner or later because she has "the same ideas".
Further on the terrace of a café bathed in generous sunshine, Danielle prefers "to wait to see what she is going to do", but thinks "that Marion Maréchal no doubt no longer finds Marine Le Pen virulent enough", without too much of an opinion on the question however, not being “not on this political side.
But in my neighboring village, I can assure you that it is Zemmour who will pass”.
"Reversals and betrayals in politics, that's not what's missing", abounds his friend Martine who understands that "convictions pass over the family, but that the situation is complicated.
Marine still raised it in part”.
At the PMU bar facing the former Hôtel-Dieu which has become a library-museum, horse racing is always more exciting than the upcoming presidential election.
Mahjoub has his own opinion on the matter, however, at least as long as his glass is full.
“I think she goes to the most racist to put it bluntly.
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For Lili, this is not what convinced her to join, like her, the camp of the ex-journalist.
“A year ago, Eric Zemmour said a very true thing: “Marine Le Pen will never win” and I believe it”, justifies the one who says she was “very disappointed by Marine during the debate between two rounds in 2017”.
Here, the supporters of the polemicist defend a "cordial agreement" with what remains of the local RN.
"We do 50/50 on the panels", explains Charles.
But at the rate things are going, will there be people left to stick the posters of Marine Le Pen, whose activists were absent from the market?
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