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...On Monday farmers in a convoy of tractors and trucks near Perpignan in south-west France dumped rocks and gravel to block motorway exits, while others blocked roads headed to the Golfech nuclear plant north...
...Le Pen also targets many important figures in the far-right political movement, including her father and party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former number two of the party Bruno Gollnisch, the mayor of Perpignan...
...In Perpignan, water scarcity was so acute in March that the church revived a centuries-old tradition of holding a ceremonial procession to pray for rain....
...The candidates are Jordan Bardella, acting party leader and member of the European parliament, and Louis Aliot, the mayor of Perpignan....
...Adrià took him to a citrus-grower in Perpignan, France. “This guy was growing hundreds of citrus to sell to restaurants, and in completely the wrong climate,” says Todolí....
...Essay, Life & Arts, May 21) which showed FT readers the gritty reality of what lifeis really like for European long haul truck drivers.At 25, also for a story, I spent eight days sharing a truck cab from Perpignan...
...In her last campaign rally in the far-right stronghold of Perpignan in the south on Thursday night, she said if elected she would adopt a new economic model based on “small and medium-sized companies, localism...
...The Catalan coast is where Spain’s package holiday industry was born, an attempt, under Franco, to pull the country out of its postwar economic turmoil; Brits flew to Perpignan in France and were bussed...
...“Never has the prospect of a real change been so close,” she told cheering supporters in her final rally before polling day, held on Thursday in the far-right stronghold of Perpignan, where her former partner...
...At a pre-election rally yesterday in the southern town of Perpignan, one of the few in France to be run by a mayor from her anti-immigration Rassemblement National party, Le Pen appealed to her supporters...
...We’d love to send gas to Romania but how can we if it doesn’t even make it to Perpignan [on the French side of the border]?”...
...Soon after the war began, Louis Aliot, Le Pen’s number two in the RN, chartered buses to Poland and brought back 113 Ukrainian refugees to Perpignan where he is mayor....
...Jean-Marc Pujol, former mayor of Perpignan in the south-west, says that, because the names of sponsors are published, mayors face political pressure and may be reluctant to sign up for controversial candidates...
...Perpignan, near the Spanish border, is the biggest town run by the RN after Louis Aliot became mayor last year....
...Louis Aliot, the RN mayor of Perpignan, projected calm confidence in Reims: “We are running a good campaign and mobilising our troops. There is no crisis.”...
...The Perpignan to Paris train was a relic of a bygone age....
...Both Girona and Perpignan airports are a 45-minute drive away. The high-speed train station of Figueras is 15km away and has frequent connections to the rest of Europe....
...At a rally the previous week in the far-right stronghold of Perpignan, where Le Pen’s former partner Louis Aliot is mayor, her supporters included the Mélenchon defector Andréa Kotarac, now a regional representative...
...The fact that it falls firmly into the former category lies in its origins and the friendship forged more than a decade ago at a Perpignan culinary school between two then-aspiring young chefs, Fabien De...
...politically brilliant move by having some of her senior party members going to Poland with a bus and trying, you know, get some of the Ukrainian migrants back to the south of France, in the south of France in Perpignan...
...In crime-ridden Perpignan, said Mr Aliot, “drugs infect everything. People don’t want Perpignan to become like Marseille. There’s a strong desire for renewal . . ....
...Ms Le Pen boasted of the victory in a one-word statement on Twitter — “PERPIGNAN!” accompanied by an image of the French flag....
Figures offer a boost for Macron after more than a year of protests over economy
...Recent showings in local elections, which saw the RN win in Perpignan but make little ground elsewhere, did not instil confidence, even if local results do not tend to be reliable predictors of the national...
...“Society has changed,” grumbled Jean-Marc Pujol, the 71-year-old mayor of the south-western city of Perpignan on the other side of France during the local election campaign....
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