Paris: Worrying disappearance. A member of the Pas-de-Calais, a lawyer by profession, seen for the last time on the benches of the National Assembly, is actively sought. It’s the last days of August, and the frontists are making their comeback. On the television sets, there are some far-right deputies, back to comment on the news. But still no trace of Marine Le Pen. Apart from a few summer tweets, the president of the RN group in the Assembly has not given a sign of life since July.
This Wednesday, August 30, it is Jordan Bardella, the president of the flame party, who will participate, with the other political leaders, in the meeting organized by the President of the Republic in Saint-Denis. Provided after-sales service to him all summer. Sometimes in the columns of the magazine Paris Match, to break the unbearable suspense of his culinary preferences and divulge his favorite pasta recipe. Sometimes, in another register, with Current Valueswhere the MEP published an op-ed taking a stand against French military intervention in Niger, and minimizing Russian influence on the Nigerien, Malian and Burkinabe issues.
“What need does she have to expose herself?”
On this subject, either, Marine Le Pen, a refugee in her family home in Trinité-sur-Mer, did not react. Nor when Gérald Darmanin, in an interview with The voice of the North, assures that a victory for the latter in 2027 is “fairly probable”. Sometimes silence is golden. The leader of the Frontist deputies is ultimately only pursuing her strategy, developed in recent months, which some sum up with an expression: “the step-of-vaguism”. “It is true that when you say absolutely nothing, it is difficult to slip,” laughs a former traveling companion.
In the ranks of the boss, on the contrary, we raise our eyes to the sky. “I have the impression that you lay the same paper on us every year at the start of the school year”, exasperated the secretary general of the RN group in the Assembly. His entourage repeats it: “Yes, Marine Le Pen takes the height and rarefies his speech.” Always in the idea of blending into this presidential stature that she covets so much. The break with the presidency of the party was a real liberation for the deputy who is delighted to no longer have to manage day-to-day business and therefore leaves Jordan Bardella in the front line. “What need does she have to expose herself, sums up a relative. She goes up when she does nothing, she has every interest in keeping quiet.” Back in Paris, the frontist is dragging her feet to make her comeback. No media has been rigged yet.
On September 15, in Beaucaire, for the return of the party, Marine Le Pen decided to skip the traditional “off” exercise with the press, tired, we are told, of this “little low-level game” with journalists. . Understand: quasi-official candidate for the fourth time in the presidential election, she would now be above that. But politics abhors a vacuum, and some are already warning about the risk of seeing the boss overshadowed by another profile. This makes Marine Le Pen smile who assured, on May 1, in Le Havre: “I think you have already noted it, but I do not have too much difficulty existing.” And to add, if it came to the idea of some to ogle his place: “I am the representative of my political family as long as the circumstances do not make me decide that someone else will be in a better position. than I am. And right now I am, egoless, in a better position.” If the absent are always wrong, at the RN, no one has yet dared to warn Marine Le Pen.