Marine Le Pen, the strategy of respectability

Since the legislative elections last June, Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally, does not seem to want to embody the most frontal opposition to Emmanuel Macron. “This is the last stage of the famous demonization wanted by Marine Le Pen”, explains journalist Julien Nény, Thursday July 7, on the 11 p.m. set of franceinfo. Last week, “Marine Le Pen demanded that her group, the RN, no longer be placed on the far right of the hemicycle, as is traditionally the case, but rather in the center, in place of the Republicans and next to the presidential majority”says the journalist.

This request, rejected by the President of the National Assembly, shows that “Marine Le Pen wants to take the place of LR in the political sense but also in the literal sense, inside the hemicycle”analyzes Julien Nény. “The objective of the finalist of the last presidential election is very clear: to give the RN the image of a government party”says the journalist.