Marine Le Pen’s first trip to Guadeloupe was disrupted after in particular the hectic recording of a program, an episode condemned by Emmanuel Macron that the candidate blamed on the “failures” of the state.
A “proximity” campaign
Coming to carry out a campaign of “proximity” on the island of the Antilles against the backdrop of the problem of purchasing power and not of “gigantism”, in allusion to the gathering of her rival Eric Zemmour on Sunday at the Trocadero, Marine Le Pen had however to faced with the hostility of its opponents from Guadeloupe.
She castigated at a press conference “the excess” of Eric Zemmour’s thousands of activists when they shouted “Macron assassin”, and the choice of the “division” of his rival, who in return qualified her as “socialist”. .
A TV set that degenerates
On Saturday evening, the set where Marine Le Pen finished recording a duplex program which was broadcast on Sunday on France 3 “was invaded by activists from several nationalist organizations in Guadeloupe”, including the National Alliance Guadeloupe (ANG), according to the Guadeloupe La Première channel, which itself had to cancel a live interview scheduled just after.
“Twenty far-left demonstrators jostled us quite violently,” the entourage of the National Rally candidate in the presidential election told AFP. His press officer reported having received “a blow in the back”. The team filed a complaint for “violence”. Rival of Marine Le Pen in the race for the Elysée, the president candidate Emmanuel Macron declared himself “shocked” and considered the “totally unacceptable scene”.
35 years after a stormy visit
The candidate’s trip to the West Indies was to make us forget the nearly 3,000 demonstrators who, in December 1987, had taken over the runway at Lamentin airport, in Martinique, to protest against the “racism” of the National Front and the arrival of its then-president Jean-Marie Le Pen, who had refused to disembark.
Thirty-five years later, the RN candidate, whose party had come out on top in the last European elections, was able to appreciate a warmer welcome to a background of drums, by around forty supporters at Pointe-à-Pitre airport, but his displacement did not avoid false notes.