From this Sunday, the approximately 40,000 RN members – up to date with their dues – choose the new leader of their party in an online ballot. Activists have five days to choose Marine Le Pen’s successor. Two candidates: the acting president of the party and MEP Jordan Bardella and the mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot. For the first time in fifty years, the flame party will appoint a leader who will not bear the name “Le Pen”.
It is an election for which there will have been no debate on television, not really clashes between the candidates nor ideological quarrel either. ” It’s not face to face, it’s side to side “warned Louis Aliot at the start of the school year. Marine Le Pen, who released the reins of the party to devote herself to the RN group in the Assembly, readily admits it; if she has decided not to choose between her two followers, it is because they are both on the same line, hers.
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At the beginning of the month, the mayor of Perpignan tried to stand out in this campaign, accusing Jordan Bardella of being too radical, but the offensive stopped there. ” Neither Aliot nor Bardella has an interest in attacking the other because they know very well that they will receive a phone call from the boss in the second “says a relative of Marine Le Pen. No question of creating a stir therefore.
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The heading must remain the same. Results : ” nobody talks about our congress and that suits us well “Laughs an RN executive who is betting on a 70-30 next Saturday, in favor of Jordan Bardella. The interim president is supported by 90% of party officials. But whatever the score, one certainty, in the end, it is Marine Le Pen who will remain the leader. The results will be announced at a congress in Paris next Saturday.
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