In the 2026 municipal elections, the RN needs to “go and seek scores in big cities” | EUROtoday

One yr earlier than the 2026 municipal elections, the National Rally (RN) doesn’t cover its modest ambitions within the massive cities of France, the place its scores are progressing much less strongly than elsewhere. The excessive proper, which has not but discovered the important thing to addressing voters of huge metropolises, has no different ambitions than to combine municipal councils, largely abandoned in 2020.

A determine sums up the stampede of the time: out of 42 cities with greater than 100,000 inhabitants, the occasion had solely deposited lists in half of them, and had solely accessed eight municipal councils, together with Perpignan, the one massive metropolis held by the RN. Elsewhere within the Southeast, the acute proper not often crossed the 5 % mark within the first spherical. The causes for the crash, in line with the occasion: an excessively late marketing campaign entry, checklist heads that change each six years and no media floor to compensate.

Under the chairmanship of Marine Le Pen, essentially the most skilled components had been despatched to the profitable cities of the outdated northern and East mining basins, or on the Mediterranean coast. No government has ever wished to assault an enormous metropolis and settle there completely. “A municipal campaign in a big city is heavy, it is the most difficult election there is, estimates the deputy of North Bruno Bilde, close to Marine Le Pen. You have to make a list of 70 names, the reception in the markets is quite mixed, and the victory is impossible. »»

The diagnostic party that this lack of implantation is a handicap for the presidential election. Without elected municipal official or elected to the urban community, the RN loses means of expression on local subjects: no free stand in the newspapers of the communities, nor of quotes in the local press. “To win the presidential election, you’ll have to get scores in main cities, do 35 % the place 25 % was made in 2022Edwige evaluation Diaz, vice-president of the occasion liable for native location. This is the place it’s a must to outperform and for that, it’s a must to arrange. We took the stage of testimony candidates. »»

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