As the next municipal elections approach, scheduled for March 2026, the National Rally (RN) dealt a serious blow in Bouches-du-Rhône by winning, on Sunday, November 24, the partial municipal elections of Rognac, a discreet municipality of 12,500 inhabitants. inhabitants of the banks of the Etang de Berre. The victory in this city that, in 2020, had triumphantly elected Stéphane Le Rudulier (Les Républicains, LR), who became a senator a few months later, was predictable, taking into account the latest election results.
However, it remains historic for the former National Front, because it constitutes its first municipal success in the department since the emblematic conquests of Marignane and Vitrolles, respectively, in 1995 and 1997, if we want to say it correctly, apart from the capture of the. town hall on the 7thmy Marseille sector in 2014 by Stéphane Ravier, RN party in 2022, which only affected part of the municipality of Marseille.
In Rognac, the National Rally benefited from very favorable circumstances: an outgoing majority in tatters, a UDI mayor, Sylvie Miceli-Houdais, overwhelmed by business, a quadrangular second round… But its success, in the The first, as in the second tour, is also that of a long-term implementation strategy, orchestrated by the deputy and departmental head of the RN Franck Allisio.
“Building majorities with fifty shades of blue”
On Sunday afternoon, the elected official, who was just questioned by the site Marsactu for not having declared to the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life the positions of two of his parliamentary attachés in the regional council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, which he denies, he did not hide his satisfaction when the results were announced.
It was he who personally chose the future mayor, Christophe González, 53 years old, a native of the city and recent member of the RN. He who directed the campaign on the ground, through one of his parliamentary attachés, Bryan Vincent. And again he who, by purchasing the brand and logo of the former Chiraquian party Rassemblement pour la République, in June 2023, opened the possibility of Christophe González’s list being presented under the double RN-RPR label. A hybrid name of “union of rights” imagined with the mayor of Marignane, Eric Le Disses (several on the right), still vice-president of the departmental council, also present on Sunday afternoon to celebrate the victory of the RN candidate. “Voters are no longer ashamed to say that they vote for the National Rally, but among mayors the expression is still not so free, even if they share our ideas.. Now perhaps they understand that by allying themselves with us they have the possibility of maintaining or winning. explains the elected official from Marignan.
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