Marine Le Pen holds her first meeting in Hénin-Beaumont after two weeks of chaotic campaign

The little blue-white-red flags are waving. The songs of the interplanetary star Taylor Swift, the short-lived group Aqua or the immortal hits of French artists from the 1980s come loudly from the speakers. Welcome to the Abbaye d’Hénin-Beaumont space (Pas-de-Calais), where, on the red carpets of the large hall, activists, executives and elected officials of the National Rally (RN) met this Sunday. They are not there by chance, and the event that brings them together is important. The nationalist candidate waited two long weeks, after her debate at the Medef summer universities in front of the employers, to hold her first meeting. Is this a campaign launch? Not officially. We will have to wait for the nationalist party congress in Orléans, on October 24 and 25. But this first major speech by the RN candidate after two chaotic weeks of presidential campaign was expected.

The choice of the city was obvious for Marine Le Pen.