The President of the national Front gloats

It is a restaurant-discotheque devoid of charm in the suburbs of Avignon, a stone's throw from the Leader Price supermarket. For the occasion, a "patriotic banquet" of the FN, posters have been punaisées on the walls: tricolour flame and a Jean-Marie Le Pen hair in the wind, white teeth and eyes on the distant. That day, leader of far-right, top of the list in d'Azur for March regional, is in the field in the city of the Popes. The voice is a little quivering, legs were hard to follow, but 2002 presidential finalist has lost nothing of his verve. "You only have a weapon: the ballot." "This is the time to say no," ignites it, in "Bitru" (Middle French in his jargon) Defender, threatened to "become a second class citizen to which it will impose the rule of Sharia". And to insist: "We would like that people go to the cemetery in singing." Is euthanasia of people! We are against euthanasia! "Some 250 activists present, most of old, sing"The Marseillaise", waving small flags that the party was careful to distribute them. The President of the national Front gloats.

Old recipes

At the age of eighty-one, Jean-Marie Le Pen book his last battle, more than half a century after his debut in politics. Last but not least. After a series of electoral setbacks which were financially overcome the FN, it is not only for him to succeed its output. The challenge is also to pass to his successor, who must be appointed at the next Congress late 2010 or early 2011 (likely his daughter Marine), a party that is not in tatters. To do this, the European Parliament is the old recipes: immigration and insecurity, both being linked eyes since provides, "most of the offences and crimes committed by recent immigrants or the descendants of immigrants."

Favourable

At each of its movements, to try to return in anyway the electorate that took it Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, Jean-Marie Le Pen scoffs "General deception" of the head of State "grand-storyteller and petit-faiseux", "as it is not, pretended to". He described a France "bankrupt" and who can more tomorrow pay its pensions, faced a "surging" immigration which costs "EUR 70 billion per year". "". "We are no longer masters among us", insists the patron of the FN, don't forget to spend a little verse to national identity, the debate with "is aware that the French it was threatened".

PACA, where unemployment exceeds 10 and where there are many retirees, the speech appears to bear fruit. A one month of the election, polls the crediting of 13 to 19 of the vote. What to hold on to the second round and play spoiler against the right. It is true that the region is not the most unfavourable to the FN. This is where the party won its first city: Toulon, Orange and Marignane in 1995, followed in Vitrolles two years later. This is also that he won his best score in 2004 (22,95) with Guy Macary for top regional. Jean-Marie Le Pen had to cede the place administrative reasons preventing him from standing. Six years later, Guy Macary figure in non-eligible position on the list of the League of the South, led by Jacques Bompard ex-FN. Jean-Marie Le Pen sweeps the threat of a back of hand. Puts it the bar to "more than 20".