The National Rally’s seduction operation amongst bosses | EUROtoday

Lunch didn’t happen in a non-public room, however in full view, at a barely elevated desk, overlooking the big room with colonnades and moldings. It was on the Laurent, an opulent restaurant within the Parisian “golden triangle” of enterprise, that Marine Le Pen selected to look with the previous boss of EDF Henri Proglio on November 21. Objective achieved: even earlier than being relayed by The chained Duckthe knowledge traveled round Paris, even discovering its means into the conversations of Le Siècle, this very choose membership of the financial and political elite whose members met the following day for his or her month-to-month dinner.

Since she succeeded in putting in 89 deputies within the National Assembly in June 2022 (88 right this moment), the chief of the National Rally (RN) has multiplied her gestures in direction of financial circles – this small world of bosses and executives, financiers and enormous shareholder households -, to serve its ambition of accessing the Elysée in 2027. With the hope of arousing as little rejection as doable, and of attracting higher classes and retirees.

Because, if the RN’s speech historically finds an echo amongst artisans, merchants or small companies, with multinationals and French traders it’s one other story. These, failing to beat them, the RN seeks to ” unplug “, as summarized by the RN deputy for the Somme Jean-Philippe Tanguy.

A method defined by the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella. ” To win [en 2027]we must tie part of the elites to the popular bloc, he declares to World. We will win if we can reassure. And if we talk to France which is successful. » Marine Le Pen’s right-hand man himself launched a seduction operation with the bosses, by going to the campus of the prestigious HEC business school on November 28, where he was invited for the first time, to speak to the “decision makers of tomorrow”. Nearly 300 students came.

“We are reasonable people”

In Parisian economic circles, Marine Le Pen is still frightening, notably with her promise to return to retirement at 60, or her promise to reestablish a tax on financial capital, such as a wealth tax, even if the very liberal Alain Madelin gives him some advice. If she accessed the Elysée, “its 2022 program shows that it would not put any limit on the budget deficit, estimates the essayist Alain Minc, advisor to many big bosses. It would hit the market wall in twenty-four hours. It would happen to him much worse than what happened to M.^me Truss in England [Liz Truss était restée un peu plus d’un mois au poste de première ministre britannique, en 2022] “.

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