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Jean-Marie Le Pen, image extracted from the documentary

TV story – Sunday May 11 at 8:50 p.m. – Documentary

The National Rally (RN) is now “The best placed party to qualify in the second round” And win the presidential election of 2027, based on Ifop: understanding the way it occurred there. This is what Flame return, 50 years of standardizationin reference to 1974, the 12 months when Jean-Marie Le Pen, first candidate of the National Front (FN) on the Elysée, obtained 0.74 % of the vote.

The authors subsequently immersed themselves within the archives of 5 many years to extract the numerous occasions of the far -right celebration and make them remark by males and politicians from all sides. Surprisingly, their analyzes will converge.

First salient, “the thunder of Dreux” (Eure-et-Loir) throughout the municipal elections of 1983. Nonna Mayer, researcher in political science on the CNRS, contextualizes this primary alliance of between two laps between the RPR candidate and the candidate FN (Jean-Pierre Stirbois), who “Take the FN out of its ghetto”.

A 12 months later, one other shock: Jean-Marie Le Pen reached 11 % to the Europeans (proportional nationwide poll). “The left was great”feedback right this moment Franck Timmermans, ex-assistant normal normal of the FN (1986-1998). Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, ex-Prime Secretary of the PS (2014-2017), develops: “The proportional is Mitterrand who sets it up (…). He did not tell us: “I did the proportional to divide the right, and it doesn’t matter if the FN comes to responsibilities.” But we understood. »» Roselyne Bachelot, ex-minister (RPR then UMP), confirmed “” [François Mitterrand] was in this area a chaos engineer. »»

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