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Marie-Caroline Le Pen returns to politics and dreams of transforming Calais into a RN stronghold

2020-02-20T19:44:50.900Z


REPORTAGE - Twenty-two years after her last candidacy, Marine Le Pen's older sister is on the RN list. And is running an active campaign.


In Calais

" Hello, this is the National Gathering list!" Are you going to vote at the next municipal elections? »Scarf tied around the neck, wrapped in his black parka, it is your perky and smile on your lips that the eldest of the Le Pen sisters, Marie-Caroline, finally decided to reconnect with politics. After twenty-two years of turning our backs on the ballot box, it was just 60 years old, in the oh-so symbolic city of Calais (Pas-de-Calais), that the family virus finally caught up with it.

" The people here not only have the impression of being abandoned, but that we don't care ," she says, between two doors of the popular neighborhood of Fort Nieulay. At the start, I came only to lend a hand. And then I met these people. We can't let them be treated like that. So I started campaigning: I do everything, I stick, I box, I go door-to-door ", laughs the one who will occupy 18th place on the list" Calais for you ", led by former

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Source: lefigaro

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