The National Rally appoints its campaign directors for the next municipal and legislative elections

The National Rally unveils its new organizational chart. The party’s president, Jordan Bardella, announced on Sunday, September 15, the appointment of Julien Sanchez, former mayor of Beaucaire who became an MEP, as the RN’s campaign director for the 2026 municipal elections. MPs Thomas Ménagé and Julien Odoul will lead the next legislative campaign, which Marine Le Pen said she hopes will take place as early as 2025 in the event of a new dissolution.

Before an enlarged national council of the RN, gathered in a building of the National Assembly, Jordan Bardella entrusted the deputy Edwige Diaz with the critical task of taking care of the training proposed to future candidates. The MEP Aleksandar Nikolic becomes national delegate to the federations. Alexandre Loubet, deputy and campaign director of the last European and legislative elections, is promoted to “special advisor” to the party leader.

The replacement for Gilles Pennelle, the general director who resigned after the failure of the “Matignon Plan” for the legislative elections, should be named “in the next few days”said Jordan Bardella, arguing for a profile “a little more technical” that “policy”.