The National Rally (RN) is no longer a paradox this fall. Crutch of a government that it despises, champion of “zero tolerance” but bogged down until November in a trial for embezzlement of European funds, here is the far-right party relaunching its race for the legislative elections. With its bet on a new dissolution of the National Assembly in the summer of 2025, the Lepéniste party inaugurated its “permanent campaign”Sunday October 6, during a meeting in Nice, in front of more than 4,000 people. With Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella as headliners but in the absence of the stage local, the deputy for Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, although an ally of the RN.
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As if the vote of June 30 and July 7 had not been held. As if the next one was already scheduled. Three months later, the RN replays the lost match endlessly. “Everything starts again and everything continues, let’s not give the impression that the campaign is running out of steam or slowing down”professed Jordan Bardella, a few hours before a meeting recycling the scenography and clips of the last elections. The only new feature of the day is a slogan: “Until Victory”. The president of the RN criticizes the left for promising “Cuba without the sun”But never mind taking advantage of Che Guevara’s device (“Hasta la victoria”).
The man who already saw himself as prime minister a few months ago began his speech as he had concluded that of his defeat on July 7: “We cannot stop a people who have started to hope again. » Half-hour prelude where “hope” announced of a hypothetical early vote has given way to the bitterness left by the last one. The MEP dwelled, once again, on these “circumstances of history” who would have blocked his access to Matignon. Not the simple choice of voters to form a “republican front”, in his eyes, but the “unnatural alliances” from left to right. These “anathemas”, « combines » and others “poor arrangements” that Marine Le Pen also portrayed at length before him. “I am not going to return here to the procrastination (…) of recent months »had nevertheless promised the member for Pas-de-Calais, before devoting part of her speech to it.
“How viable can such a government be? »
If the spectators of the day had forgotten the “recovery program” served by the RN in the last legislative elections, its president took the time to repeat the promises already presented in the fall, without the filter of “media commentators”. Those who came to find out his ambition for the coming months or the fate he has in store for the executive will leave without an answer. “What viability can such a government have? Mr. Bardella asked. This is the question that all French people ask us. » He didn’t answer them. ” None “shouted an activist, going against the mutual cordiality displayed by Michel Barnier and Marine Le Pen on Tuesday 1is October, during the general policy declaration of the new Prime Minister. The RN, which has the power to bring down the latter by joining forces with the left in a motion of censure, is for the moment determined to do so. “give a chance”.
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