Marine Le Pen at a meeting this Thursday evening in Avignon
Marine Le Pen will be at a meeting in Avignon this Thursday evening. The candidate of the National Rally, qualified in the second round of the presidential election against Emmanuel Macron, chose the Parc des Expositions in Avignon for one of her two meetings between the two rounds. In Vaucluse, a department where voters voted for her at 29% in the first round ahead of Emmanuel Macron at 22% and Jean-Luc Mélenchon at 21%. In Avignon, she finished in third place, behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Emmanuel Macron.
The meeting starts at 5 p.m. this Thursday, with Marine Le Pen speaking at 6:30 p.m. Something 4,000 to 5,000 National Rally activists are expected to Avignon. Mainly Vauclusians. But not only. Convoys leave from Var, Bouches-du-Rhône and Alpes-Maritimes. Even longer: from Bordeaux or Lyon in particular. Thierry d’Aigremont, departmental delegate of the National Rally 84 is proud of it: “It will be a historic meeting because of the atmosphere and the fervor that there will be. We are coming to victory.” For him, “it is a recognition of Marine Le Pen towards the Vaucluse. It is a guarantee of the quality of the relations between the Vauclusians and her.”
Eric Zemmour’s supporters present at the meeting
Supporters of Eric Zemmour will be present at the Marine Le Pen meeting. The Reconquest candidate, who obtained 7% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election, called to vote for her in the second. What will Julien Langard, one of the leaders of Reconquête! in Vaucluse. He will be there this Thursday evening at the Parc des Expositions in Avignon to show his support.
Obviously for him: “Today the match has changed. It is played between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. She is the one who best embodies the ideas that I have always defended, those of the national camp.” Julien Langard does not worry about commenting on his arrival will be perceived. “A candidate who aspires to be the president of all French people will be able to welcome people who part ways with an important part of her ideas first.”
A demonstration against the arrival of Marine Le Pen in Vaucluse
The arrival of Marine Le Pen in Vaucluse does not satisfy everyone. A demonstration is planned at the call of several political organizations and trade unions. The procession meets in front of the town hall of Avignon at 5:00 p.m., a place far from innocent, explains Thierry Juny, the co-delegate general of the Solidaire union in Vaucluse: “If Marine Le Pen can come to Avignon, it’s because Grand Avignon Tourisme has rented her a hall in the Parc des Expositions. We supposedly have a left-wing town hall, which nevertheless opens the door wide to the far right. “ The demonstrators will go to Place Pie, even if the initial route was to start at Montfavet and end as close as possible to the Parc des Expositions. A journey refused by the prefecture of the department.