“The RN can change doctrine on New Caledonia because it is not a mobilizing subject” | EUROtoday

While Marine Le Pen finishes her journey to New Caledonia, a yr after having damaged up with the historic doctrine of the National Rally (RN) which opposed any referendum speculation on independence, the historian Nicolas Lebourg, specialist in excessive proper, returns to the developments within the lepenist discourse on the topic.

What place does New Caledonia occupies within the software program of the National Front [devenu le Rassemblement national] ?

The Algerian creativeness buildings the entire relationship to New Caledonia. When Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived in Nouméa, in 1985, for the regional marketing campaign, he bears his paratrooper beret, clearly referring to the creativeness of the Battle of Algiers. He additionally goes to the grave of considered one of his buddies from the time of Poujadism, a black footer who got here right here after 1962 and thus symbolizing the hyperlink between the 2 territories: we’re certainly in “the earth and the dead”, this manner of defining the nation because the nationalist theorist Maurice Barrès [1862-1923].

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