What future for the National Rally? The day after a major incident in the National Assembly – racist remarks by an RN deputy in the middle of a session – chance of the calendar, the far-right party is preparing to designate who will succeed Marine Le Pen at its head. . Activists had until Thursday evening to vote. Announcement of the result Saturday morning. There were two candidates: the MEP and acting president of the RN Jordan Bardella and the mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot, a history of the party.
It is a turbulent end to the internal campaign at the National Rally. Thursday, during the session of questions to the government, a rebellious member of African origin, Carlos Martens Bilongo, is challenging the executive on the drama of illegal immigration when suddenly a voice rises from the extreme right of the hemicycle. We distinctly hear this sentence: That they return to Africa “. The person who pronounces it is a member of the National Rally: Grégoire de Fournas, deputy for Gironde. Instant anger and emotion in the hemicycle. The deputies of all persuasions rise. The President of the National Assembly puts an end to the session taking into account, the seriousness of the facts ” and of ” the legitimate emotion of parliamentarians “.
But for the National Rally, it is a manipulation of the left. The elected officials of the RN are indeed advancing another version of the facts and Marine Le Pen is stepping up to defend her deputy. According to her, Grégoire de Fournas was actually talking about the migrants transported by boat by the NGOs and not the rebellious deputy. We had to react quickly, because this incident is a serious blow to the strategy of demonization, of normalization carried out for more than ten years by Marine Le Pen and what are called the Marinists. Jordan Bardella and Louis Aliot are just one of them.
The two candidates for the presidency of the RN are on the same line, which explains why we witnessed a relatively lackluster internal campaign before this incident. Instructions had been given not to make waves. As MP Edwige Diaz said a few days ago: “ If you want to see blood and tears in this internal campaign, you will be disappointed. We are finishing a campaign that went very well, with a lot of respect. »
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The concept of the great replacement
Respect, it is true that there is between the two candidates. This did not prevent a few scratches in this internal campaign. At the beginning of October, Louis Aliot attacks the followers of the concept of great replacement of which Jordan Bardella is a part. Like what the two men are not quite on the same line. According to the mayor of Perpignan, this theme is ” disturbing ” and ” pleases the most radical and folk elements “.
The great replacement is a theme very dear to Eric Zemmour. Eric Zemmour, to whom Jordan Bardella is closer than Louis Aliot. Enough to nurture alliances in the coming months according to Dorian Dreuil, expert at the Jean Jaurès Foundation: “ Jordan Bardella embodies both youth and a very identity line at the National Rally. Jordan Bardella could potentially have the ability to talk about topics, including identity to other small groups, including Reconquest! “First life-size test, the Europeans of 2024.
The 2027 presidential election
But can Marine Le Pen really leave the reins of the party now? This is not the goal according to his relatives. ” She will continue to watch the grain, but simply does not want to have the stewardship to manage we are told. Officially, she left the presidency of the party to devote herself to the RN group in the Assembly, with its 89 deputies. ” Marine Le Pen wants to gain height “explains one of his closest advisers. With a deadline in everyone’s mind, including that of RN spokesperson Laurent Jacobelli: 2027.
” Marine Le Pen will keep an essential role, as president of the group in the National Assembly, as the initiator of this great movement of refoundation and renovation of the party and as many members hope, and I too, future presidential candidate “, explains Laurent Jacobelli.
Can Marine Le Pen win the presidential election in 2027? It is in any case the objective of the one who will be elected tomorrow: to take Marine Le Pen to victory in 2027, after three failures. But in four and a half years, the famous “ glass ceiling “, according to political scientist Dorian Dreuil:” Today there are very few parties able to stop them. The last step is perhaps 2027. We are in the last kilometer to cross to make the RN acceptable to all. At least in appearance, because deep down, the National Rally is still just as vehement and racist. “And we saw it again Thursday evening in the Assembly with these racist remarks made in the middle of the session by an RN deputy.
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