Marine Le Pen wants to demonstrate that she can simultaneously clean up public finances and preserve her social program. For her political comeback in Hénin-Beaumont, the National Rally candidate is seeking to unite two electorates: a right wing concerned about the debt and a working-class France attached to purchasing power and social protection.
Seventeen days after her address to business leaders gathered at Roland-Garros , Marine Le Pen returns this Sunday to her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont. The change of scenery perfectly illustrates the challenge facing the National Rally candidate over the next seven months: to reassure voters of her economic credibility without abandoning the social agenda that has been one of the pillars of her strategy for several years.
Speaking to the business community, Marine Le Pen promised up to €125 billion in savings, a return of the public deficit to below 3% of GDP, and the establishment of a "golden rule" for fiscal responsibility. This discourse of financial seriousness was intended, in particular, to convince a segment of the right wing and business leaders still wary of the National Rally's economic program.
In Hénin-Beaumont, a return to social issues
But Marine Le Pen does not intend to abandon her social agenda. In particular, she maintains her desire to lower the legal retirement age to 62, with the possibility of retiring at 60 for certain long careers.
In recent days, she has also laid out her red lines for the government regarding the next budget: no tax increases and no "social injustice against working France ." Faced with the state of public finances, she is instead demanding "savings, savings, savings."
The candidate is thus seeking to construct a delicate political equation: to massively reduce public spending while protecting the working classes who constitute an essential part of her electorate.
Two electorates to unite in order to win
This strategy also responds to the gradual broadening of the RN vote. Marine Le Pen retains a strong base among workers and employees, but now seeks to convince more retirees, managers, business leaders and former voters of the traditional right.
Jordan Bardella , who was present alongside him in Hénin-Beaumont, embodies this second perspective. More liberal on several economic issues, the RN president has been increasing his meetings with business leaders and sending signals to right-wing voters for several months.
Marine Le Pen now faces the task of uniting these two Frances in a single candidacy. Her gamble for 2027 is clear: to appear sufficiently rigorous to govern, without losing the social identity that allowed the National Rally to establish itself permanently in working-class areas.
