After three months of campaigning, the verdict. It is at the end of the morning, Saturday November 5, that the National Rally will know the name of the person who will succeed Marine Le Pen at the head of the party. Two candidates are in the running for this 18th congress, which is being held at the Mutualité in Paris: MEP Jordan Bardella and the mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot. For the first time the flame party will be led by a non-member of the Le Pen family. Follow our live.
Jordan Bardella big favorite. He has for him to have experienced a meteoric rise, started in 2019 when he took the lead of the RN list for the Europeans, before winning the interim presidency of the party last year. It was also Marine Le Pen who installed him in this chair at the end of 2021 to devote himself to his presidential campaign.
The vote of the militants closed for two days. The 40,000 members of the National Rally had until Thursday to decide between Jordan Bardella and Louis Aliot. “The question is the extent of his victory”summarizes a framework, while the MEP has set himself the objective of obtaining at least 67.65% of the votes, the score obtained by Marine Le Pen against Bruno Gollnisch to succeed Jean-Marie Le Pen ago Eleven years.
The RN caught up with his old demons. It is a short sentence, barely audible to viewers, which stunned the National Assembly. Deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas caused a suspension of the session on Thursday by interrupting a question from black elected LFI Carlos Martens Bilongo on the fate of hundreds of migrants stranded at sea after being rescued in the Mediterranean. “Let him return to Africa”, launched the elected representative of the Gironde. The strategy of trivialization of the partywhich Jordan Bardella has promised to pursue, is shaken.