As the next municipal elections approach, scheduled for March 2026, the National Rally (RN) struck a major blow in Bouches-du-Rhône by winning, on Sunday, November 24, the partial municipal election of Rognac, a discreet municipality of 12 500 inhabitants on the banks of the Etang de Berre. The victory in this city which, in 2020, had triumphantly elected Stéphane Le Rudulier (Les Républicains, LR), who became senator a few months later, was predictable, given the latest electoral results.
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It nonetheless remains historic for the ex-National Front, because it constitutes its first municipal success in the department since the emblematic conquests of Marignane and Vitrolles, respectively in 1995 and 1997 – if we want to put it correctly. apart from the capture of the town hall on 7e Marseille sector in 2014 by Stéphane Ravier, party of the RN in 2022, which only concerned part of the Marseille commune.
In Rognac, the National Rally benefited from very favorable circumstances: an outgoing majority in tatters, a UDI mayor, Sylvie Miceli-Houdais, weighed down by business, a second round in the form of a quadrangular… But its success, in the first as in the second tour, is also that of a long-term implementation strategy, orchestrated by the deputy and departmental head of the RN Franck Allisio.
“Building majorities with fifty shades of blue”
Sunday evening, the elected official, who has just been questioned by the site March for having failed to declare to the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life the jobs of two of his parliamentary attachés within the regional council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, which he denies, did not hide his satisfaction when the results are announced.
It was he who personally chose the future mayor, Christophe Gonzalez, 53, a native of the city and recent member of the RN. He who led the campaign on the ground, through one of his parliamentary attachés, Bryan Vincent. And again he who, by buying the brand and logo of the former Chiraquian party Rassemblement pour la République, in June 2023, opened the possibility for Christophe Gonzalez's list to present itself under the dual label RN-RPR. A hybrid name of “union of rights” imagined with the mayor of Marignane, Eric Le Disses (various right), still vice-president of the departmental council, also present Sunday evening to celebrate the victory of the RN candidate. “Voters are no longer ashamed to say that they are voting for National Rally, but among mayors, speech is not yet as free, even if they share our ideas. Now they will perhaps understand that by allying themselves with us they have the possibility of maintaining themselves or winning. explains the Marignan elected official.
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