Most of them explain that they expected it.
But that they would have preferred a larger gap with Emmanuel Macron.
The approximately 600 Marine Le Pen activists invited on Sunday to the Armenonville pavilion, in the Bois de Boulogne, for the election evening of the RN candidate are disappointed, but combative.
Because
"tomorrow"
, they all explain, they will be in battle order for the legislative elections.
“I am convinced that Macron will not have the majority.
He will have to deal with an army of deputies from the RN and La France insoumise too.
It will not be easy for him”
, explains Bastian, 21, student, who presents himself in the 9th district of Loire-Atlantique,
“a land of conquest of the RN”
, facing an outgoing LREM.
“We were 8 points from victory.
A result that is all the more honorable as Marine had to face, between the two towers, a disinformation campaign”
, explains the young man, who evokes
“Macron's lies, in particular on ecology”
.
“Even if he was elected tonight, he is not the president of all French
people,” asserts Bastian, who has believed in the ideas of the RN since he was 13 years old.
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At RN HQ, it is in a calm atmosphere, around glasses of champagne, that they prepare for the aftermath.
It was at 8:12 p.m., after following the results on the first floor, with her close guard, that their champion spoke.
She hailed the
"brilliant victory"
, particularly thanked
"forgotten France"
, that
"of the provinces, the countryside and overseas"
, evoked
"the disintegration of purchasing power"
,
"the violation of freedoms"
,
"anarchic immigration"
,
"judicial laxity"
.
The representative of the RN has found her verve and her favorite themes.
It returns the fight to the legislative ones.
A speech of less than ten minutes before leaving his white desk.
Then a brief return, half an hour later, for a quick walkabout.
“It's frustrating for the activists not to see her longer
,” says Catherine, in her sixties, a resident of Coulommiers (77).
“There was little chance that we would win.
I would have preferred 47%!
It's sad to think that we're going to leave for a round.
But this turn will come very quickly”
, continues the one who from Monday will resume
“towing and gluing”
in Seine-et-Marne.
“To oppose Macron, his insults, his hatred of France”
"I expected it,"
says an old lady in a pale green evening dress.
She had a boulevard during the debate.
But she calmed things down. We are well-bred people at the RN.
Emmanuel Macron will be able to continue to sell France to the cut
,” she says.
Hélène sees the glass half full:
“This result confirms that there was no vote transfer from Mélenchon to Macron.
And that's quite normal.
When we claim to be addressing the precarious, we are not calling to vote Macron
, ”she asserts.
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Kévin, 29, head of the Vienne RN federation, discusses with his comrades from the department.
From Monday, they meet the local press to launch the legislative campaign.
This worker will be a candidate in Poitiers, to
“oppose Macron, his insults, his hatred of France”
.
"During the debate, he despised Marine Le Pen as he despises the French
," said the young man, who has been active in the RN since the Bataclan attacks.
“I found in Marine the only candidate who defends the French people.
Mélenchon defends foreigners.
We house them, we feed them while we break through the slab.
I get up every day at 5 a.m. and I find it difficult to finish the months.
At 10 p.m., the ranks of activists are sparse in the reception room, while the raspberry pies and bottles of Perrier arrive.
“It may be the last time for Marine, says Marie, 57.
But there are young people, like Jordan Bardella.
