the failure of the Toulon “laboratory” of the National Front | EUROtoday

His title solely speaks to some individuals; to a handful of connoisseurs of the intense proper or from Toulon. Evoking it, nevertheless, is sufficient to awaken previous demons within the harbor. On January 6, Cendrine Blot posted a heat message of encouragement on Facebook to Laure Lavalette, candidate of the National Rally (RN) for the municipal elections within the Var prefecture.

Nothing shocking in itself: in 1995, she accompanied the conquest of town by her husband, Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, the primary mayor within the historical past of the National Front (FN, which turned RN in 2018) to guide a city of greater than 100,000 inhabitants. Thirty years have handed. The mandate was so deplorable that the help of the previous elected official – Cendrine Le Chevallier was then first assistant to her former husband – is now the kiss of demise. And Laure Lavalette’s crew noticed a quasi-conspiracy when Var-Matin had the audacity to notice the phrases of the frontist precursor on January 10.

“We know what that resulted in”

A proper divided and demonetized by the judicial fall of the native baron (Hubert Falco, mayor of Les Républicains then Horizons, from 2001 to 2023), a left disunited and with out nice hopes, a stronger than common help for the identification obsessions and towards immigration of the far proper: the RN may play on the similarities between the present political configuration and that which, on the time, had introduced Jean-Marie Le Chevallier to the city corridor.

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