In the aftermath of the first round of the legislative elections, the management of the far -right party is delighted to set up all over the country. A low noise progression in rural areas, in line with the presidential election.
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The brown croissant thickens. At the end of the first round of the legislative elections on Sunday, June 12, the National Rally (RN) spreads on the map of France along a diagonal of the Grand-Est to the Gironde, which the presidential election already prefigured. “We are no longer confined to what was historically perceived as our areas of force, in what we could call the RN of the North or the Southern RN,” pleaded Jordan Bardella, the acting president of the party, at the Headquarters, Monday, June 13, by evoking “sustainable roots throughout the territory”. This is one of the teachings of this ballot: always anchored in Hauts-de-France, the Grand-Est and the Mediterranean periphery, the far-right party extends to the center and the southwest.
Monday morning, the lieutenants of Marine Le Pen hammered that they even belonged to “the only political force in dynamics”, since it has increased by more than five points since 2017, or 1.2 million votes, and Almost doubled the number of his candidates qualified in the second round, when the electoral meetings of the left and the outgoing presidential majority were reduced. In Guadeloupe, where the far -right party achieves its strongest progression, the candidate RN, Rody Tolassy, is ahead of, in the 3rd constituency, the outgoing deputy Max Mathiasin (MoDem).
“Grand Slam”
In total, the party of M me le Pen came first in 108 districts (against 158 in the second round of the presidential election) and will contribute in 208 second rounds – this was not the case that in 120 constituencies in 2017, and 61 in 2012. The RN is delighted with a “Grand Slam” in eighteen departments, in the words of Mr. Bardella, where his candidates are in the running in all the constituencies . A phenomenon already at work in some of its strength areas in 2017, in Aisne, Haute-Saône, Eure or the Pyrénées-Orientales. Since then, executives who have become small local barons have increased the notoriety of the RN. “We played Perpignan throughout the department, with four of my candidates. I have my head everywhere, on all documents”, rejoices, for example, the mayor of the city Louis Aliot.
Five years later, this “Grand Chelem” also took place in the North, in Pas-de-Calais (twelve candidates qualified in the twelve constituencies); East, in the Ardennes, Aube, Haute-Marne, Meuse, Vosges or the territory of Belfort; the center, in Nièvre and the Yonne; The South-East, in the Vaucluse and the Var, and even the South West, in Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Aude … The RN is consolidated throughout the Mediterranean arc and in Rural departments traditionally anchored to the right (Haute-Loire, Meuse, Vosges, Ardennes, Yonne). It continues to climb in the Bouches-du-Rhône or Pas-de-Calais. More surprising, the National-Populist Party progresses the most in Morbihan, Indre-et-Loire or Gironde.
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