RN PRESIDENT. Jordan Bardella and Louis Aliot are officially candidates for the presidency of the National Rally party. Saturday November 5, one of them will succeed Marine Le Pen, who was president of the RN for ten years.
[Mis à jour le 28 octobre 2022 à 13h43] The next president of the National Rally will be known on November 5, 2022 and two candidates are in the running for this place: Jordan Bardella, 27, interim president of the RN since September 2021, and Louis Aliot, 53, member of the FN (ex- RN) since 1990. Almost a week before the election, Jordan Bardella is currently the favorite. The MEP, who took his party card at the age of 16, was appointed by Marine Le Pen in 2018 to lead the Youth Movement, recalls 20 minutes. In 2019, he is the head of the list for the European elections and the RN comes first, ahead of La République en Marche. For his part, Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan, has been an active militant of the National Front since 1990. He was appointed secretary general of the FN in 2005, then vice-president of the party from January 2011 to March 2018. He is vice-president of the RN since July 2021.
The fate of the two candidates will therefore soon be determined. Marine Le Pen, the last president, of the party which gives way to the head of the RN, was questioned about European 1, October 20, 2022. She shared her feelings. “We have two very good candidates, two personalities who are experienced,” she said of Louis Aliot and Jordan Bardella. She wants activists to vote to elect the right person. “Our goal is to come to power, to be able to apply our ideas,” she said. The two candidates defend the same political line. guest on France info in September 2022, Jordan Bardella estimated that he was better placed than Louis Aliot to win this election: “3/4 of the elected officials gave me their sponsorship and their support”, he explained. He assured that he could “open [le] movement to a new electorate”, which does not yet vote RN.
Why does Marine Le Pen give up the presidency of the RN?
Arrived at the head of the ex-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 already handed over to Jordan Bardella, appointed interim president, so that the candidate can devote herself to 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?
Two candidates are officially in the race to try to take the presidency of the RN. Jordan Bardella entered the race on August 31 by posting a letter to members on social media in which he announced his candidacy. An approach “to continue the victorious path that we took behind Marine (Le Pen, editor’s note).” The same 30-year-old step also targets the presidency “so that we remain this great coherent, popular, meritocratic force, rooted in the territories and where each of you will find his place.” Acting President for a year, he hopes to ride the wave of the historic electoral results of the National Rally, both in the presidential and legislative elections, to continue to lead the party.
He will therefore face Louis Aliot. In a column published on the website of Opinion Thursday, July 28, the mayor of Perpignan indicated his desire to combine the functions of first city councilor and head of the RN: “At 52, father, doctor of law, lecturer at the university then lawyer, I have the training and the will necessary to assume my mandate as mayor and a function of party president, around a collegial direction made up of well-defined responsibilities. In addition, he explained his method so that the local elected officials of the national rally are all associated in order to set the course for the presidential election of 2027: “The all-digital will facilitate the relations of the new direction of the movement in its report to the militants who are located in the provinces, in Corsica, in the Overseas Territories or abroad. Our projects for local establishment and training of executives are of capital importance for the local elections to come. This is what is at stake in our success in the next presidential election!
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. The candidates had until Friday, September 9 to collect sponsorships and officially declare themselves candidates. Voting began on Friday September 30 and will close on Thursday November 3. The results will be announced on Saturday 5 November.
The future president of the National Rally is elected by the members of the party. Voting takes place electronically only. The ballot lasts a month, between September 30 and November 3.