SPEECH LE PEN. Arriving in the lead in her constituency of Pas-de-Calais on June 12, Marine Le Pen hopes to be re-elected as an MP and to see other RN candidates win this evening. The far-right leader will speak after the results are announced.
Look for a legislative result near you
Seven days ago, Marine Le Pen hailed the progress of the National Rally in the legislative elections despite a third place behind Together! and Nupes. The deputy had also repeated the call to block the coalitions of the majority and the left. This evening, the outcome of the second round of the legislative elections will tell us if his will has been heard and especially if his objective of composing a parliamentary group of around a hundred deputies has been achieved. Whatever the result, Marine Le Pen will deliver a speech after the election, around 8 p.m. This Sunday, June 19, the MP for Pas-de-Calais, candidate for re-election, will follow the election night from her stronghold in the 11th district of the department, Hénin-Beaumont.
In her speech, Marine Le Pen should have a word for her personal result in the legislative elections. If we have to wait for the publication of the official figures, the candidate’s score in the first round – 53.69% against 23.43% for the Nupes candidate whom she faces this evening – suggests a victory for the far right. . But the speech should focus on the national result of the RN in the race in 208 constituencies and on the ambitions of the party according to its new strength at the Bourbon palace.
Marine Le Pen’s June 12 speech
Arrived well ahead of the first round of the legislative elections in her constituency of Pas-de-Calais with more than 50% of the vote but not having gathered at least 25% of the votes of the registered voters, Marine Le Pen had not been able to be elected to the National Assembly on the first try. She had all the same pointed out her score and her thirty points lead over the candidate of Nupes. More than her score, the leader of the RN had insisted on the “progress of almost 7 points compared to 2017” of the national result of the far right “obtained despite the abstention”. The opportunity to present the party to the flame as the only one benefiting from a real dynamic and above all as the “first party in France”.
On the strength of these results, Marine Le Pen called on voters “to confirm and amplify” their vote for the RN in the second round and abstainers to go to the polls. Pleading for the vote for the far right, the candidate had also campaigned to block Nupes and the presidential majority, going so far as to call for “not to choose” in the event of a duel between Nupes and Together! According to Marine Le Pen, it is “important not to let Emmanuel Macron have an absolute majority which he will abuse”.
Marine Le Pen’s campaign speeches
During the legislative campaign, Marine Le Pen held a single meeting, on June 5 in Hénin-Beaumont, land conquered by the National Rally. This speech arrived late but took up all the characteristics of the lightning campaign of the leader of the RN: a massive call for the mobilization of voters, the insistence on the capacity and the need to send a strong far-right parliamentary group in the National Assembly and of course the defense of the ideas of the RN in parallel with the criticism of the Nupes program and the policy of the presidential majority. However, these are statements made the following days during trips to Loiret, Perpignan and Hérault between June 8 and 10 alongside the RN candidates who marked Marine Le Pen’s campaign. Among her salient spikes sent to opponents, the MP for Pas-de-Calais compared Nupes to a “political ZAD” and denounced the “masquerades” of the executive promising the payment of inflation aid as of this summer among others.
During the in-between rounds the strategy was the same: defend the ability of the RN to elect a hundred deputies in the hemicycle, and establish itself as the first opposition force to Emmanuel Macron. All this while punctuating the attack campaign against Nupes and Jean-Luc Mélenchon who “will never be Prime Minister” repeated Marine Le Pen on June 14 on France 2 but also Emmanuel Macron pointing to a ” feverishness” but also the “inappropriate behavior” of the Head of State who traveled to Romania and Moldova in the middle of the campaign or even by pressing the delicate case of Minister Damien Abad, targeted by a new complaint for sexual assault during the in-between rounds.