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The president of the National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, and the president of the RN group in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, at the Palais-Bourbon, in Paris, July 10, 2024.

July 7, 7:30 p.m. The polls have gotten extra refined and it’s not time to hope: the National Rally (RN) won’t be the main power within the National Assembly. For forty minutes, the social gathering’s spokespersons have been ready for the videoconference the place the language parts shall be outlined, earlier than displaying them on tv units. The assembly is canceled: a word shall be sufficient to deplore that the RN got here up in opposition to an alliance “unnatural” and at “single party”. Jaws clenched, Jordan Bardella made a quick assertion to the activists at 8:30 p.m. Three quarters of an hour later, Marine Le Pen got here down in flip to provide, with a smile on her lips, this oxymoronic slogan: removed from a defeat, “it’s a victory delayed”. For forty years, the social gathering has been writing the story of an inevitable march in the direction of victory, with Marine Le Pen standing because the guarantor of this frenzied optimism.

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Nearly 4 months after its failure, the far proper maintains the road of a vote manipulated by the opposite events and the press, which might have exaggerated the incompetence or racism – generally each – of dozens of legislative candidates. On September 14, Jordan Bardella prohibited his parliamentarians from having the slightest proper to stock : “Do not participate in the temptation of self-flagellation and prolonged introspection. » Has she even started? Several party figures are today annoyed by the lack of questioning of the partisan machine, beyond the resignation, on Monday July 8, of the general director, Gilles Pennelle.

“Compared to the seriousness of what happened, everyone is doing well, judges a leading executive. At each election, we say to ourselves: “This time, we’re doing the debriefing”, nobody says no however it would not occur. This story of victory exhibits that there isn’t any will to alter”he continues, strengthened by the victimizing speeches on the RN’s back-to-school assembly on October 6 in Nice. “To say that we lost because of the system is not wrong, but the system used the loopholes that we gave it”concedes Jean-Philippe Tanguy, deputy president of the RN group within the National Assembly. “We can only move forward if we draw a summary from our failures”argues Bruno Bilde, deputy for Pas-de-Calais near Marine Le Pen, judging that the departure of Gilles Pennelle can’t be a stability of all accounts.

“Ghost candidate” syndrome

After the second spherical of the legislative elections, no inner assembly made it attainable to take inventory of this unusual marketing campaign. We have simply slipped away {that a} word from Gilles Pennelle, requested by Marine Le Pen, made it attainable to verify the unpreparedness of the investitures. Alexandre Loubet, marketing campaign director, additionally supplied suggestions. “It seems that there wasn’t really a Matignon plan”confirms a deputy knowledgeable of the work of the nationwide investiture fee (CNI). The RN, beginning with its president, Jordan Bardella, continued to demand a dissolution of the National Assembly within the occasion of a Macronist defeat within the European elections. “We are ready”trumpeted the social gathering, “loans” to return to the polls, to control. But, on the night of June 9, after the resounding victory of the younger far-right chief within the European elections (31.4% of the vote), the dissolution introduced by Emmanuel Macron took the final employees unexpectedly.

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