Perpignan passes to RN, Marine Le Pen sees a “click”

The municipal elections in France ended with the confirmation of a “green wave”, with the environmentalists now at the head of large town halls like Lyon or Bordeaux. Despite this, in Perpignan, the largest city in the south of mainland France (Pyrénées-Orientales), it is the RN of Louis Aliot which takes the town hall.

The President of National gathering Marine Le Pen welcomed Sunday evening a “real big win“from his party in the municipal elections, seeing a”real click“.

“It is not only a symbolic victory, it is a real trigger, because we will also be able to demonstrate that we are capable of managing large communities, which obviously will be important given the departmental and regional deadlines.“said Marine le Pen Le Pen after Louis Aliot’s victory in Perpignan.

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“It is also the end of the ‘anti-republican front’ in reality, that is to say the one which consisted in beating the National Rally only because it is the National Rally“, she continued on TF1, citing in particular the election of party candidates in Perpignan, but also in Bruay-la-Buissière (Pas-de-Calais) and Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne).”This satisfaction comes in an astonishing election, which is also struck by a historic abstention. I dare to hope that this abstention is linked exclusively to the health crisis, I fear that this is not necessarily the case and therefore we will have to ask each other all political parties combined“, she added.

Asked about the victory of Louis Aliot in Perpignan (also a former companion of Marine Le Pen), who won between 53.1 and 54% of the votes according to estimates, she estimated that it was “the victory of the French gathering around a project, a team, a city which, it must be said, concentrates all the failures of the policy led by French leaders for years“.

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