Marine Le Pen spokesperson during the presidential campaign, this elected Toulon of the far right, hitherto little known, could well become deputy for the VAR in June legislative elections.
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She is not the best known of the thirteen spokesperson for Marine Le Pen’s campaign. However, Laure Lavalette, 46, began to campaign at the National Front twenty-five years ago. So a student at La Drois de Droit de Bordeaux, she presents herself, at 22, at the cantonals in Bègles (Gironde) under the colors of the far -right party. Without success. That year, she also misses her exams – “we cannot stick posters and do her TDs”. At the end of her studies, in 1999, she joined the MNR of ex number 2 of FN Bruno Mégret a few months. Graduated in law of vines and wine, she married, moves to Toulon, became a housewife, before returning to politics in 2012. She was elected municipal councilor in Toulon in 2014, then regional councilor in Provence-Alpes-Côte Azure in 2021.
an ambitious mother
“I am a mother of five, when they go out, I have the trouble.” Faced with journalists, Laure Lavalette does not hesitate to evoke her family life. “I am anchored in real life,” she likes to repeat, without ever getting out of her smile. Her now teenagers, she spent “two-three days a week in Paris” during the campaign and has multiplied on the sets of CNews, LCI or RMC. Until entering “La Cour des Grands” on the evening of the second round, with an appearance, in green jacket, on France 2. Coaches, in the fall of 2021, by the former journalist of BFM Pascal Humeau, Laure Lavalette S ‘is shown at ease on the sets. The end of the presidential race even had the effect of a “baby blues”.
“Our mother of battles is the survival of our civilization, the fight against Islamism, the fight against insecurity.” Thus she spoke, in October 2021, to the Regional Council. This “practicing Catholic” trendy The Manif pour tous is anti-IVG, opposed to PMA and “nauseating theories” of “LGBT propaganda”. A very reactionary line, therefore. “She does not represent the current Marine Le Pen, rather that of Jean-Marie, well from the south, or Marion Maréchal when she was at the FN,” says Cécile Muschotti, LRM deputy of Var and municipal councilor in Toulon. “I have no difficulty with the societal line of Marine Le Pen”, retorts Laure Lavalette.
A candidate for the deputation
Laure Lavalette presents itself in the legislative elections in the second district of the Var, which brings together five cantons of Toulon and its surroundings, including the municipality of… Valletta-du-Var. This demographic area of 86,000 inhabitants could fall into the RN bag. Marine Le Pen collected 49.6 % of the votes in Toulon in the second round, 5.5 points more than in 2017. During the 2017 legislative elections, the FN had obtained 42.7 % of the votes. “There have always been candidates unknown to the battalion who did not master all the subjects. For the first time, we will have a formidable and brilliant RN candidate,” worries Cécile Muschotti.