The RN chooses Le Havre for its traditional gathering

In the party, we are ***ured that the choice of the city must be read, above all, as a “signal sent to Édouard Philippe”. ALAIN JOCARD/AFP

“Joan, help!” It is on this cry from the heart, launched by a Jean Marie Le Pen all dressed in red, that ended in 2015, one of the last significant gatherings of the 1er May for the National Front.

Dismissed from the platform by his daughter, the founder of the party – who will be excluded from the movement a few days later – had come to disrupt the traditional tribute paid to Joan of Arc, place des Pyramides, while Marine Le Pen paraded, surrounded by around sixty newly elected departmental councillors.

Since then, water has flowed under the bridges. Two second rounds of the presidential election went through there for the now National Rally, and this Monday 1er May, it was in Le Havre, a former communist bastion and stronghold of Édouard Philippe, that the flame party chose to reconnect with its old tradition.

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Of Joan of Arc, however, there will be no more question. This year, Marine Le Pen, president of the RN group in the ***embly, and Jordan Bardella, president of the party, hear about…