National gathering: Marine Le Pen launches the regional ones from her family stronghold in Brittany

Back to basics for Marine Le Pen. To launch a tour of France within the framework of the regional ones, in the furious airs of a presidential pre-campaign with at least one trip per week, the president of the National Gathering is heading this Thursday to La Trinité-sur-Mer, in Morbihan. This is the first time that she has gone for an electoral trip to the Breton port, cradle of the Le Pen family. "I am delighted to start with Brittany, I draw part of my personal identity there," says Marine Le Pen, who owns one eighth of her father's childhood home, in joint possession with her sisters and the nine children. -children of Jean-Marie Le Pen.

“I miss the sea, I miss the langoustines. This is an opportunity to combine the useful with the pleasant, ”smiles Marine Le Pen, visibly in need of travel, like the French. Simple opportunity to hit the bell? “La Trinité-sur-mer is full of things. This is the history of maritime Brittany and it is linked to the person she will present as head of the list in Morbihan, ”replied Gilles Pennelle, head of the RN list in Brittany.

What seem to confirm the local rumors according to which it is the entrepreneur Florent de Kersauson, brother of the famous navigator, who would be this famous “Breton personality”, praised by the press release.

If this name is well confirmed, it resonates again with the family history of Le Pen.

Old acquaintance, it is he who would have taught Marie-Caroline, the older sister of Marine Le Pen, to swim.

In his memoirs, Jean-Marie Le Pen recounts having also had his brother, Olivier de Kersauson, as a boy on his fishing boat, "General Cambronne".

Brittany has "long been difficult" for the RN

Marine Le Pen will also take advantage of the trip for a photogenic getaway on a boat at sea after a visit to an oyster farm.

“Like that, Gérald Darmanin will be able to say that he hears the noise of… plastic boots on a boat!

», Laughs Marine Le Pen in reference to the recent remarks of the Minister of the Interior concerning his support for the military platform in Valeurs Actuelles.

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More seriously, the head of the RN recognizes that Brittany has "long been difficult" for her training.

"But less and less because it is now less protected from unemployment and insecurity," she adds.

In the Europeans, the list led by Jordan Bardella recorded only 17.32% of the vote, six points below the national average.

But within the region which has never had a heart for RN, it is indeed Morbihan which, of the four departments, is the least opposed to its training (20.13% for Europeans, 28.44% in the second round of the presidential election).

Informed of this trip by his daughter, Jean-Marie Le Pen said he was "very happy to see that the countryside is taking off from La Trinité".

And the founder of the FN to add: "I have a thought for the Kersauson, great family of the sea".

After Brittany, Marine Le Pen will notably set sail to Occitanie on May 20, Burgundy Franche-Comté on May 25, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on June 3, Grand-Est on June 11, Paca on 17 June before ending July 3 and 4 in Perpignan where a Congress will officially induct her as a presidential candidate.