{"id":170795,"date":"2025-06-09T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170795\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:25:09","slug":"beer-soaked-nationalist-rally-in-rural-france-turns-into-marine-le-pen-love-fest-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170795\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer-soaked nationalist rally in rural France turns into Marine Le Pen love-fest \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who spoke took turns at the podium relaying their traditional talking points on everything from gender identity to clamping down on mass migration as the crowd chowed down on Peruvian fusion empanadas and the Maghrebi sausage variety, Merguez.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone brought the love for Le Pen, who is facing a possible ban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/marine-le-pen-guilty-verdict-national-rally-viktor-orban-giorgia-meloni-kremlin-donald-trump-elon-musk-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on running for president in 2027<\/a> after being found guilty of embezzlement in March. The verdict was handed down just months after the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/jean-marie-le-pen-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her father and political mentor<\/a>, Jean-Marie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach passing day brings you closer to Marine Le Pen being president,\u201d Abascal, an MEP for Spain\u2019s Vox party, told the crowd in French. \u201cThey won\u2019t be able to stop her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The strongest words of support for Le Pen came from Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who made the 1,200-kilometer trip to France to back his ally. Orb\u00e1n lauded his \u201clong-time friend,\u201d as a  \u201ccourageous fighter\u201d who \u201cdoesn\u2019t betray\u201d and \u201cdoesn\u2019t let you down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance must be a very rich country if it can afford not to have Marine Le Pen as president,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>In turn, Le Pen praised Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Hungary as \u201ca model of historical resistance to oppression,\u201d and \u201ca leading nation in Europe,\u201d endorsing its refusal to implement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hungary-fined-200-million-breaking-eu-migration-unprecedented-serious-asylum-rules-european-court-justice-viktor-orban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU asylum laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those who spoke took turns at the podium relaying their traditional talking points on everything from gender identity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[71115,33,2000,299,1105,36,38,42,44,2442,5111,71116,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-170795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-andrej-babis","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-far-right","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-french-politics","15":"tag-jordan-bardella","16":"tag-marine-le-pen","17":"tag-matteo-salvini","18":"tag-parliament","19":"tag-santiago-abascal","20":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114654578777323211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}