The National Rally achieves a historic breakthrough during this first round of legislative elections, Sunday, June 12. By totaling 19.1% voicesaccording to an Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimate for France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde and the parliamentary channels, the RN did much better than the National Front in 2017, which had just exceeded 13% of the vote.
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In the first round of these legislative elections, Marine Le Pen’s party came third behind the coalition Together! (25.2%), neck and neck with the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) (25.6%), but ahead of the right-wing bloc LR-UDI-DVD (13.6%). The RN can now consider forming a group of 20 at 45 deputies in the Assembly, according to the projections in seats.
A few days before the first roundseveral tenors of the RN had explained to target more than a hundred deputies at the end of the second round, on June 19. “We gathered 50% of the votes in more than 150 constituencies and 55% of votes in more than 90 constituencies”underlined Marine Le Pen during a press conference, calling on voters to give her “100 to 150 deputies”.
Even if the objective seems very difficult to achieve, the Rassemblement national has already achieved a big blow: it is sure to form a group in the National Assembly (at least 15 deputies), which was not the case five years ago, with only eight elected to the Palais-Bourbon.
After the progress of nearly 7.5 points achieved by Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election (41.45% against 33.9% in 2017), the RN, which refused any alliance with Eric Zemmour and his party, Reconquest!, continues its march forward in the legislative elections. A new political deal for Marine Le Pen and the main far-right formation, which will be able to weigh more in the national debate.