Editorial. Why does the National Rally need to remain on a war footing by launching a permanent campaign?

The National Rally is already campaigning for the next legislative elections. Marine Le Pen hopes and even predicts, Saturday, September 14, in front of her party’s executives, a new dissolution of the Assembly in ten months, that is to say as soon as the minimum period of one year has elapsed. The RN can also weigh in this direction if it votes for a motion of censure filed by the left to bring down the Barnier government. As long as the other blocs, left, center and right do not agree, the RN is by definition the master of the clocks at the Palais-Bourbon. It’s arithmetic. Jordan Bardella has therefore decreed that the RN is entering into “permanent campaign” for future legislative elections.

This message is first addressed to public opinion. Jordan Bardella wants to maintain the image of a party ready to exercise power. With a clear strategy, an effective team, and competent candidates. He has even already appointed a tandem of campaign directors: MPs Julien Odoul and Thomas Ménagé. But be careful, he has already done this to us. At the beginning of June, on the evening of the dissolution, the RN boasted of having a “Matignon plan” all tied up. It was only a list of candidates and many of them were noticed during the campaign by their incompetence and their racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic remarks.

The other recipient of this announcement is precisely the executives who wanted to open an internal debate on the causes of the defeat in the legislative elections. And to discuss the shortcomings of the Bardella presidency. In the second round of the legislative elections, the Republican front worked at full speed and highlighted the limits of the “de-demonization” tactic, which aims to disguise the RN as an ordinary party. The far-right party already saw itself in power and Jordan Bardella at Matignon. It clearly failed, but with 37 more seats, Marine Le Pen refuses to talk about defeat. Move along, there’s nothing to see!

No question of self-criticism, nothing like a permanent campaign to silence the grumblers! Especially as another delicate deadline approaches. The trial that opens on September 30 to judge Marine Le Pen, accused of embezzlement of public funds, and 26 other elected officials or collaborators of the RN in the case of the fictitious assistants of the European Parliament. The charges are heavy and the legal risks significant. Declaring general electoral mobilization is also the way to close ranks and stifle the possible qualms of the troops.