If there is a phrase to remember from Jordan Bardella’s book, it is undoubtedly this: “Future victories will depend on the unity of the patriotic camp, through the ability to reunite the orphans of a more Orleanist right. » The affirmation of a “right-wing union” strategy, in what the president of the National Rally (RN) has done in a more personal way until then, is a harbinger of the debate that could shake the party between now and 2027 and the election presidential.
Should the RN resign itself to abandoning the last trappings of the populist strategy, the one that guided Marine Le Pen between 2012 and 2022, to become the owner of a field, like its European counterparts? Since Marine Le Pen came to power in 2011, no senior member of the far-right party has so clearly stated her goal of breaking with the strategy. “Elite bloc versus popular bloc”who judges in private “insufficient[e] ».
However, it is through this socio-electoral analysis, prepared by the pollster Jérôme Sainte-Marie, who became her advisor, that Marine Le Pen hopes to one day come to power: consolidating itself as the leading party of the working classes, then going to convince the middle classes that they are suffering personal proletarianization and the retirees who deplore a deterioration of the country.
Conquer the bourgeois right
Emmanuel Macron allowed him to make this confrontation a reality “between globalists and nationalists”, and blur the left-right divide. She doesn’t believe in his return. “We theorize about his disappearance. It’s irreversible.”He assured in the fall of 2022, when Macronism, in a relative majority, already seemed to be coming to an end. Since then, Marine Le Pen has not missed the opportunity to assure anyone who wants to believe her that she is not. “neither left nor right”.
Unlike Jérôme Sainte-Marie, Jordan Bardella believes, like the late essayist and Maurras advisor Patrick Buisson (1949-2023), in “the essential crossing (…) between the working class and part of the conservative bourgeoisie”. He does not clearly proclaim the renunciation of “neither from the right nor from the left”, which would open a rift within the party. But his hand stretched out towards the obsolete “Orleanist right”in reference to René Rémond, a historian specializing in the right in France, and whose best recent incarnations are Alain Juppé and then Emmanuel Macron, intrigues. Working at length on Pascal Praud’s question, on Tuesday, November 12 on the CNews channel, Jordan Bardella rambled without ever denying, to the point that the editorialist concluded: “You are right-wing, but Marine Le Pen forbids you from saying so. » Without being denied.
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