“We are a normal party, but not a party like the others: the others are trench warfare. With us, there is a form of unity to preserve, it is my wish. » Of this wish, expressed by Jordan Bardella a month ago, there is nothing left. Elected on Saturday, November 5, with a score beyond his expectations (84.84%), a sign of his great popularity with the 36,600 activists, the new president of the National Rally (RN) has chosen to jeopardize party unity by forming an executive office at his hand.
Louis Aliot is the only non-member of Jordan Bardella’s close guard to join this body, made up of twelve people. His allies in the internal campaign, the elected officials of Pas-de-Calais Steeve Briois and Bruno Bilde, relatives of Marine Le Pen, are excluded from the body, which includes among others Gilles Pennelle, militant frontist for thirty-five years having collaborated in the past with a racialist neopagan group, Terre et Peuple.
The most eminent victim of this decision, the mayor of Hénin-Beaumont, Steeve Briois, slammed the door in a din of all the devils: in the wake of the announcement of the composition of the executive office, he sent to the press a press release denouncing “a beginning of a purge against those who defend the social line”. A basic man of marinism, Steeve Briois plowed the Pas-de-Calais mining basin for a long time before winning the town hall – for him – and the deputy – for Marine Le Pen – of Hénin-Beaumont.
“The elders have no place by divine right”
This earned him real popularity within the party: in the vote of the militants, he came in fourth position behind the vice-president of the National Assembly Sébastien Chenu, the mayor of Fréjus, David Rachline, and the sister of the former President, Marie-Caroline Le Pen. Jordan Bardella, Louis Aliot and Marine Le Pen were not candidates for the national council.
“The fact that they are not in the governing bodies questions, and will question the militants, believes Louis Aliot, appointed first vice-president of the party. Steve Briois comes fourth: I don’t see how he can’t be appointed to the executive office. I hope that they will be able, them and him, to take a step towards the other. »
It is unlikely, as the rivalry is strong between the two men on one side and Jordan Bardella on the other, since a dispute over nominations for the regional elections of 2021. “You don’t appoint someone to the executive office who calls you a ‘little jerk’ in the investiture committee”, slice the entourage of the new president. “The elders have no place by divine right”adds Philippe Olivier, one of Jordan Bardella’s mentors.
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