The National Assembly (RN) will no longer be a paradox this fall. Crutch of a government that despises, champion of “zero tolerance” But bogged down until November in a process for embezzlement of European funds, the far-right party relaunches its race for the legislative elections. With its commitment to a new dissolution of the National Assembly in the summer of 2025, the Lepenist party inaugurated its “permanent campaign”Sunday, October 6, during a meeting in Nice, before more than 4,000 people. With Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella as headliners, but in the absence of the local scene, the deputy for Alpes Maritimes Eric Ciotti, although an ally of RN.
As if the votes on June 30 and July 7 had not been held. As if the next one was already scheduled. Three months later, the RN endlessly repeats the lost game. “Everything starts again and everything continues, let’s not give the impression that the campaign is losing strength or slowing down”professed Jordan Bardella, a few hours before a meeting in which scenes and clips from the last elections were recycled. The only news of the day is a slogan: “Until victory”. The president of the RN criticizes the left for promising “Cuba without sun”but he does not hesitate to appropriate Che Guevara’s motto (“Until victory”).
The man who already considered himself prime minister a few months ago began his speech as he had concluded his defeat on July 7: “We cannot stop a people that has regained hope. » Half hour prelude where “hope” announced of a hypothetical early vote has given way to the bitterness left by the last one. The MEP paused once again on these “circumstances of history” which would have blocked his access to Matignon. In his opinion, it is not about the simple choice of voters to form a “republican front”, but about the “unnatural alliances” from left to right. These “anathemas”, “combines” and others “bad arrangements” which Marine Le Pen also portrayed extensively before him. “I’m not going back to procrastination here. (…) of the last few months »However, he had promised the Pas-de-Calais deputy, before dedicating part of his speech to him.
“How viable can such a government be? »
If the spectators of the day had forgotten the “recovery program” served by RN in the last legislative elections, its president took the time to repeat the promises already presented in the fall, without the filter of “media commentators”. Those who have come to find out his ambitions for the coming months or the fate that awaits the executive will leave without a response. “What viability can such a government have? Mr. Bardella asked. This is the question that all French people ask us. » He did not answer them. ” None “shouted one activist, going against the mutual cordiality shown by Michel Barnier and Marine Le Pen on Tuesday the 1st.Ahem October, during the new Prime Minister’s general policy statement. The RN, which has the power to overthrow the latter by joining forces with the left in a censure movement, is for the moment determined to do so. “give it a chance”.
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