No surprises expected. Jordan Bardella is expected to access this Saturday to the presidency of the RN, allowing Marine Le Pen to focus on the Assembly and its Elysian ambitions intact. But Friday exclusion of 15 days of the deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas of the hemicycle for remarks considered racist disrupts the expected enthronement.
The RN seemed to be caught up in its old demons when its deputies, including Marine Le Pen, were the only ones this Friday to remain seated during the vote to establish a sanction against of the deputy of Gironde.
“It is a denial of expression, a lie organized to make a subject taboo, yet extremely important”, estimated this Saturday morning on France Inter Laurent Jacobelli, RN deputy for Moselle, about this sanction.
Regarding the words of Grégoire de Fournas, Laurent Jacobelli denounces “an organized operation, LFI needs to make a splash”. “He spoke to a French MP, and he told him that the SOS Méditerranée boats had to return to their country of origin. In a clumsy way “, only recognized Laurent Jacobelli.
The strategy of trivialization of the party, which Jordan Bardella has promised to pursue, is shaken. Especially since the sanctioned deputy has regularly shown his support for the candidate.
Initially, however, the weekend was to be the opportunity to orchestrate a smooth transition in a party with a checkered history. The result of the members’ vote, which is to be revealed this Saturday morning at the Mutualité in Paris, should put an end to a false suspense: after three months of campaigning, no one imagines that the interim president will fail. against his rival, the mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot.
Its objective: more than two thirds of the votes
“The question is the extent of his victory”, sums up a party executive, while the MEP has set himself the objective of obtaining at least 67.65% of the votes, the score obtained by Marine Le Pen facing Bruno Gollnisch to succeed Jean-Marie Le Pen eleven years ago.
It is for Marine Le Pen to free herself from sometimes thankless internal tasks, while the epicenter of the RN is now in the National Assembly, where the deputy of Pas-de-Calais shines on a group of 89 elected officials and consolidates its political and media base more than ever. Relieved of the stewardship of the RN, in particular of the thorny financial equation, she will be able to refine a fourth presidential candidacy in five years, which no one in the party dares to question. “There is a major role for Marine le Pen, she is the natural leader and the legitimate candidate for the next election. Next to that, you need a solid device, ”said Laurent Jacobelli.
Jordan Bardella, him, will have to find its place, while the party has often reserved a cruel fate for its number two: “The dolphin’s destiny is sometimes to run aground”, had summed up Jean-Marie Le Pen in his time. He has for him to have experienced a meteoric rise, started in 2019 when he took the lead of the RN list for the Europeans, before winning the interim presidency of the party last year.