Mayor Natacha Bouchart confronted with the ambitions of the RN | EUROtoday

Friday February 20 in Calais, two hours and 100 meters separate the presentation of this system of the outgoing mayor (numerous proper), Natacha Bouchart, candidate for a fourth time period, and that of the pinnacle of the National Rally (RN) checklist, Marc de Fleurian. A coincidence which marks the acceleration of the marketing campaign within the largest metropolis of Pas-de-Calais, within the sights of the far-right social gathering.

If Natacha Bouchart was elected within the first spherical in 2020, with 50.24% of the votes (and 62.26% abstention), the victory of Marc de Fleurian through the early legislative elections of 2024, with 49.33% of the votes within the first spherical within the metropolis, was stunning: in 2020, the far-right candidate had solely collected 17.91% of the votes for his first municipal candidacy. During the 2022 legislative elections, his rating within the metropolis was 31.37% within the first spherical.

The parachute drop of Marc de Fleurian, who systematically sends a letter for every beginning and every dying, was perceived domestically as a political need of the RN to anchor itself on this metropolis emblematic of the migration disaster for greater than thirty years. The environmentalist opponent Jean-Pierre Moussally notes the means “very important” And “a whole engineering around him” upon his arrival, for instance with a premises despite the fact that he was solely a easy municipal councilor.

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