If Marine Le Pen renounces the presidency of the National Rally, she does not intend to disappear from the organization chart of her party.
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Marine Le Pen begins to formulate it in private. Within the RN, she wants to keep a prerogative: the international. No question of entrusting her successor with this precious address book that she has forged in ten years and three presidential candidacies. “Internationally, I have many friends“, slips the ex-candidate. Her entourage evokes European heads of state or government – such as Viktor Orban, the Hungarian Prime Minister, who received her in Budapest last fall – and leaders of close parties. or partners of the National Gathering.
What will be the formal status of Marine Le Pen within the RN? His closest advisers do not yet have the answer to this question. “I don’t know what idea she has in mind”, confides one of those who nevertheless exchanges with her several times a day. No one can say either if Marine Le Pen will keep an office at the party’s headquarters, or emoluments for her new role. “What is certainconfirms an adviser, is that the next important deadline is the Europeans.” They take place in two years, in 2024.
So far, the sovereignists have been divided into two groups in the European Parliament – Identity and Democracy on one side – where the RN sits -, the European Conservatives and Reformists on the other. 129 MEPs between them… if they merge, which is Marine Le Pen’s ambition. The national rights would then have the third group in the European Parliament. They are a few in the RN to see their ex-presidential candidate play a role of “leader” on a continental scale. “Our broader political family needs a charismatic and legitimate figure.”justifies a relative.
The latter considers that in view of the results of the legislative elections in France, Marine Le Pen becomes the political personality best placed to play this role. “And then it has to rise“, explains another. Implied: that she leaves political politics to the deputies she has elected. To focus on the march of the world. What she will also do in the National Assembly by sitting on the Foreign Affairs Committee, as she did during the previous term of office, because Marine Le Pen has not given up on the idea of being a presidential candidate again in 2027. In this perspective, it is obviously strategic to continue to work on its international stature.