Dismissed from the leadership of the National Rally, the mayor of Hénin-Beaumont believes that the successor of Marine Le Pen places too much emphasis on “immigration and identity” to the detriment of “everyday problems and social problems” .
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Ousted from the executive office of the National Rally after the election of new president Jordan Bardella, the former vice-president of the party and mayor of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) Steeve Briois denounces Saturday November 5 on franceinfo a “straightening” of the RN. The 27-year-old MEP won with nearly 85% of the vote against Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan, putting an end to eleven years of presidency of Marine Le Pen.
Steve Briois denounces a “purge which consists in excluding from the executive office people who have been at the heart of the social aspect of the movement, to make room for people who are only identity”. “It’s a turn that worries me, he continues, because I don’t want us to fall back tomorrow into what the FN was twenty years ago”.
“It’s not just immigration and identity, we have to talk about everyday problems and social problems”argues the mayor ofHenin-Beaumontconsidering that if the RN wants to win in the next presidential election, “we must also be able to address left-wing voters”.
According to Steve Briois, “if we become radicalized and entrench ourselves in a little tougher positions, we are not likely to get there”, because it would be “to arrive at a kind of FN style 80s where we only talk about identity”.