Intoxicated by the historic alliance within the 1983 municipal elections between the precise and the far proper within the metropolis, Jean-Marie Le Pen, then president of the National Front, had consecrated Dreux (Eure-et-Loir) “tomb of kings and cradle of the National Front”. These occasions appear very distant. A number of weeks earlier than the municipal elections in March, the National Rally (RN) is remaining discreet. Its departmental delegate and regional advisor, Virginia De Oliveira, maintains doubts in regards to the presence of an RN listing within the elections. “We are working on it but we will not communicate until the end of January,” she evades.
In 2020, with 7.3% of the votes forged, the RN was eradicated within the first spherical in a context of sturdy abstention (64.1%). However, the social gathering led right this moment by Jordan Bardella continues to function a compass for native political actors. It is exactly the danger of rapprochements and electoral agreements between the precise and the RN that Pierre-Frédéric Billet invoked to distance himself from his social gathering.
The Les Républicains (LR) mayor of Dreux introduced, on December 12, 2025 on social networks, that he wouldn’t search the nomination of LR. “I’ve chosen to return out of silence to denounce the errors of the social gathering to which I’ve belonged for thirty years… Indeed, it’s changing into apparent that the watchword for the 2026 municipal elections can be to encourage the right-wing lists to merge within the second spherical with these of the intense proper. » And to invoke Gaullian and Chiracian values, to which LR, in line with him, turns his again.
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