THE PEN. Marine Le Pen is well ahead in the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais against the Nupes candidate Marine Tondelier.
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[Mis à jour le 19 juin 2022 à 23h20] Not surprisingly, Marine Le Pen was elected in the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais. The former presidential candidate obtained 61.03% of the vote according to the final and official figures transmitted by the Ministry of the Interior, clearly ahead of her opponent Nupes Marine Tondelier (38.97%) and was able to celebrate her victory in her fiefdom of Hénin-Beaumont where she especially returned to the victory of many candidates of the National Rally. The RN would ultimately be credited with 90 seats of deputies.
Why did Marine Le Pen refuse an alliance with Eric Zemmour?
On the evening of the second round of the presidential election, Eric Zemmour called on Marine Le Pen to form an alliance of “national unity” after highlighting the 8th defeat hitting the “name of Le Pen”. “I call for national unity in view of the legislative elections. We must forget our quarrels and join forces. It is possible, it is essential, it is our duty”, he began, before d explain his point. “Let’s build the first coalition of rights and patriots as quickly as possible so that the elected representatives of Reconquête!, RN, Debout la France and those of the Republicans who do not want to join the president have a chance to dominate in the next Assembly. ” A union deemed essential by the zemmourists so that the far right can weigh in the hemicycle. Yet repeated calls have never found a positive response from Marine Le Pen and the National Rally.
The flame party defended itself by explaining that it did not want to team up with the candidate who had made so many efforts to try to make it disappear. The RN executives notably assured that they did not need the support of Reconquest! advancing the large lead of the party in the results of the presidential election but also the postponement of the 2.5 million votes of voters from Eric Zemmour to Marine Le Pen in the second round without an alliance being concluded. These are also financial reasons that motivated Marine Le Pen to go it alone. Having as many RN deputies compete as possible allows the party to benefit from more public funding as soon as a party wins at least 1% of the votes in 50 constituencies in the first round, each vote earns it 1.42 euros. Each deputy election adds 37,000 euros in grants. And these sums are paid the year of the election and the following four years. And since 2017, several regions have become territories with high electoral potential for the RN such as Moselle, Finistère and Côtes-d’Armor, the north of France but also the south-west, from Dordogne to Corrèze, and the southeast.
What was Marine Le Pen’s program for the legislative elections?
Marine Le Pen takes the same line as that defended during the presidential campaign. The proposals and subjects that she and the other candidates of the RN intend to bring to the National Assembly are modeled on the presidential program of the far right. And, as during the presidential campaign, one of the subjects that comes up most often a few days before the election of legislative elections is purchasing power, at the heart of the news when inflation has climbed by five points, for which Marine Le Pen defends a reduction or even the abolition of VAT and shoots down temporary aid and energy or food checks put put in place by the Head of State. A law for the purchasing power must precisely be voted at the end of June at the end of the legislative according to the announcements of the government. Retirement is also a point of friction between the LREM group and allies and that of the RN because if the first defends the reform of the pension and the postponement of the age to 64 or 65 years, the second militates for a progressive system allowing the retirement between 60 and 62 for long careers and later depending on the age of entry into working life.