Long considered a pariah due to the excesses of its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died on Tuesday January 7, the National Rally (RN) is today at the center of the game. To understand the party’s normalization strategy, the Magnifying Glass With the political service of L’Express, retraces the key stages of this transformation carried out by Marine Le Pen.
Never under the Fifth Republic have a frontist leader and a President of the Republic maintained such close relationships as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. A respect which seals Act I of normalization of the far-right party, and which is also not without interest on the side of the Elysée…
Convinced that her party could not rise to power by maintaining the radical positions of her father, founder of the National Front, Marine Le Pen undertook a process of normalization. But ten years after the exclusion of Jean-Marie Le Pen, convicted on multiple occasions for inciting racial hatred, it is clear that the party with the flame is struggling to clean up its ranks.
Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, addressed the “excluded”, the “rejected, the “forgotten” of the Republic. Marine Le Pen, for her part, is seeking to broaden her target. Starting with Republican voters. But this Does this strategy really pay off?
After the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, a page is turning at the RN. If Marine Le Pen was until now the natural candidate for 2027, the sword of Damocles of ineligibility now weighs on her. For the first time in the history of the flame party, its presidential candidate could therefore change his surname…
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