Marine Le Pen does not need to access the Elysée to complain “reserved powers” on foreign affairs. The leaders of the National Rally (RN), except Jordan Bardella, are prohibited from speaking about the US presidential elections on November 5. “Nothing to gain, everything to lose”summarizes Renaud Labaye, general secretary of the RN group in the National Assembly, reminding the instructions to deputies who, however, want to speak about the event. Free to speak their minds, far-right elected officials would risk assuming their preference for Donald Trump, this political model that has become incompatible with the enterprise of notarizing and institutionalizing the old National Front.
The RN’s reluctance puts an end to years of incessant and vocal support for the billionaire. On social networks or in media interventions, until this year his representatives had not missed the opportunity to celebrate the political reconversion of the real estate magnate, praising his four years (2017-2021) in the White House. “America is successful because today it is proud to be American. Russia is successful in globalization because its people are proud to be Russian. And I think we could draw inspiration from this national pride instead of constantly blaming our people.”praised Jordan Bardella in June 2019.
In 2017, the man who would become president of the RN analyzed Donald Trump’s victory as the “release [des Américains] of a warlike and corrupt system ». A success that, after that of the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom in 2016, would presage that of Marine Le Pen in France.
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As soon as Donald Trump was inaugurated, Marine Le Pen tried to meet him in New York in January 2017. To no avail: she went no further than the ground floor of Trump Tower. A year later, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter invited Steve Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, to her party congress with great fanfare. Economy, geopolitics, health, immigration: Marine Le Pen’s supporters were enthusiastic about a mandate they dreamed of duplicating in France. A fervor barely affected by candidate Trump’s attacks against the vote and institutions to prevent Joe Biden’s victory in 2020.
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