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11:16 a.m. : “I am not leaving the presidency of our movement to go on vacation. I remain mobilized. For the future, for the movement as for France, it goes without saying that I will be where the country and the national cause will need me”, launches @MLP_officiel. #CongressRN #RN @franceinfo https://t.co/dekl18wF68
11:19 a.m. : Offensive speech by Marine Le Pen at the opening of the #RN congress: “those who thought they were inflicting their mortal blows on us saw their hopes shattered. Their disappointment at having failed is enough for us”, launches the one who has chaired the party since 2011 and who will hand over today… https://t.co/6z9TWXWOf8
11:19 a.m. : “Dear members, the roadmap on which you chose me included a double mission: the affirmation of the national project in France and in Europe and the refoundation of our political project.”
Marine Le Pen is currently speaking at the Mutualité in Paris, on the occasion of the 18th congress of the National Rally, while her successor must be appointed in the morning.
10:48 : Marine Le Pen will take the floor in a few moments to present the moral report of the party. A small tribute clip is broadcast before his speech, which is eagerly awaited by the party’s activists and elected officials. #CongresRN #RN @franceinfo @franceinfoplus https://t.co/7La6jXZjRB
10:48 : According to the #RN press service, “about 1400 people are expected throughout the day and 130 journalists have been accredited”. The course of the day took about thirty minutes late: Marine Le Pen must speak in a few minutes. #CongressRN @franceinfo https://t.co/7Y2ZRQ0G1k
10:48 : Jordan #Bardella is the strong favorite of the ballot. He should succeed Marine Le Pen at the head of the party. But before, it is the deputies @ljacobelli and @LaureLavalette who open the congress at the moment. They leave the floor to @K_Pfeffer, the treasurer of the party. #CongressRN #RN https://t.co/kgTYV3uBQL
10:49 : Hello ! Today, I bring you the 18th congress of @RNational_off from the Maison de la Mutualité in #Paris. The name of the new party chairman is due to be announced at 11:25 a.m. In competition: MEP @J_Bardella against the mayor of Perpignan @louis_aliot. #CongressRN #RN https://t.co/bCT2sej2bA
10:50 a.m. : The 18th congress of the National Rally has just started at the Mutualité in Paris. The name of the new party president will be announced there before noon. Our journalist Antoine Comte is there, I’ll spare you some of his tweets.
10:34 am : These are a few words that will be landmarks in the 16th legislature, by their meaning as much as by the very strong reactions they have provoked. Thursday, Grégoire de Fournas, RN deputy for Gironde, shouted the sentence “that he(they) return(s) to Africa” while his colleague Carlos Martens Bilongo, elected from La France insoumise in Val-d’Oise, spoke in the Hemicycle. Yann Thompson and Thibaud Le Meneec tell you how we got here.
09:57 : Is the incident closed? “We consider that what should be done has been done (…) but that will not wash away what I consider to be a stain”, answers Danièle Obono https://t.co/dhYJVFrqQB
10:00 a.m. : “We consider, at La France insoumise, that what had to be done has been done”, judged the deputy for Paris Danièle Obono on franceinfo this morning, the day after the sanction taken by the National Assembly against the deputy Grégoire de Fournas for his racist remarks.