the risk-free marketing campaign of the National Rally | EUROtoday
We have recognized extra bold presidential favorites. Three months earlier than the municipal elections, the National Rally (RN) refuses to publicly set any goal. Worse, even, the far-right social gathering is happy with the mere reality of with the ability to current a listing in 600 municipalities. Almost as a lot as in 2014 or 2001, on the time when the National Front, the previous identify of the RN, was extra of a small group than of an aspirant to the Elysée.
“Quality over quantity”tirelessly repeats Julien Sanchez, marketing campaign director of the RN for the election of March 15 and 22, 2026. The MEP prefers above all of the consolation of modesty to the danger of ambition: “There is no quantified objective on the number of municipalities that we could win, or not, because I know that in any case you will be waiting for me around the corner”he swept the 1er December, throughout a primary stage replace.
Before even hoping to win any, the RN has already misplaced a metropolis: Fréjus (Var), nothing lower than the municipal showcase of Lepénistes for greater than ten years. At the start of December, David Rachline, re-elected within the first spherical in 2020 within the seaside city, resigned – below strain from Marine Le Pen – from his place as vice-president of the social gathering. Now easy “member”he is not going to run for a 3rd time period below the colours of the motion, for which he has not formally sought nomination. The marginalization of this determine, slowed down in authorized instances and his provocations, represents in anticipation the one danger of the RN on this marketing campaign: affecting the nationwide dynamics of the flame motion by a neighborhood slippage.
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