Overview
- Marine Le Pen backed RN candidate Franck Allisio at a packed Parc Chanot event drawing roughly 1,200 attendees as several hundred protesters demonstrated outside.
- The RN pushed an amendment cutting €4.9 billion from the national operating grant pool, which Payan’s camp estimates would cost Marseille about €43.6–50 million.
- Allisio said the measure was aimed at intercommunal bodies and regions rather than communes, noted he was absent for the vote, and two RN deputies from Marseille supported it.
- The government halted budget debates and signaled use of 49.3 or ordonnances, a move that would likely nullify the RN change before it takes effect.
- Recent polls show Allisio neck and neck with incumbent Benoît Payan at about 30–31% in the first round, with JDD reporting second‑round testing that favors the left in both duel and triangulaire scenarios.