RN PRESIDENT. The National Rally will have a new president. Marine Le Pen will officially step down after 11 years in this position. Who will replace her? When ? What there is to know.
The Le Pen line at the head of the FN and the RN is (soon) over. 50 years after the creation of the far-right party by Jean-Marie Le Pen, taken over in 2011 by Marine Le Pen, this surname will no longer be associated with the presidency of the movement. The founder’s daughter has indeed announced that she will officially step down after 11 years in this position. A new chapter of the party, qualified in the second round of the last two presidential elections, will therefore open in the months to come. The calendar and the method of appointing the successor of Marine Le Pen having already been recorded, now an internal campaign is beginning to try to take the reins of the party. Who will become the third president in the history of the National Rally?
Why does Marine Le Pen give up the presidency of the RN?
Arrived at the head of the former FN in January 2011 after being elected against Bruno Gollnisch, Marine Le Pen will officially let go of her post as president of the National Rally. Since September 13, 2021, she has in fact already handed over to Jordan Bardella, appointed interim president during the presidential campaign. Since then, the member for Pas-de-Calais has not returned to her post. And won’t take it back. She announced it on June 20. “I will not take over the head of the RN. I will concentrate on the presidency of this very large group”, she had justified, referring to the group of 89 RN deputies in the National Assembly, a mission on which she wishes to fully concentrate. .
Who is a candidate to become president of the RN?
If in 2011, the arrival of Marine Le Pen as president of the RN seemed to suffer from no doubt, will the fight be more intense this time? Not so sure. The natural successor seems to be Jordan Bardella, he who has been playing the role for almost a year already, from the height of his 26 years. Presented as the one unanimously accepted by the militant base, he seems on the right track to settle definitively in this costume.
If he has not officially declared his candidacy, Jordan Bardella could face another contender for the position: Louis Aliot. The mayor of Perpignan, ex-companion of Marine Le Pen, does not exclude the possibility of starting too. The list will be known soon.
When will the new president of the RN be known?
The National Rally has set the schedule for organizing the vote, which David Rachline is responsible for. Friday, July 29, 2022 will be published the modalities of candidacy for the presidency. Candidates have until Friday, September 9 to collect sponsorships and officially declare themselves a candidate. Ten days later, Monday, September 19, the official list of presidential candidates will be unveiled. Voting will then begin on Friday, September 30 and close on Thursday, November 3. The results will be announced on Saturday 5 November.
The future president of the National Rally will be elected by party members. Voting will be done electronically only. The ballot will last a month, between September 30 and November 3.