Overview
- Le Pen appeared as guest of honor at Franck Allisio's New Year event in Marseille, urging supporters to vote for change after what she called six years of left‑wing rule.
- The 1,200‑seat auditorium near the Vélodrome was filled, an antifascist activist was escorted out, and roughly 500 opponents demonstrated outside under police supervision.
- Mayor Benoît Payan reiterated that the RN is "anti‑Marseille" and attacked an RN‑backed amendment cutting €4.9 billion from the DGF, which he says would cost the city about €50 million.
- Payan also condemned an Allisio campaign tract as racist and xenophobic, citing phrases such as "préférence algérienne" and alleged ties to "islamistes."
- An Ipsos poll published this week shows Allisio and Payan tied at 30% ahead of the first round, with Martine Vassal at 23% and Sébastien Delogu at 14%.