In a column published Thursday in “L’Opinion”, the mayor of Perpignan expressed his “will” to assume the management of the far -right party.
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The expected duel will take place. Louis Aliot, 52, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the National Rally (RN), Thursday July 28, in a platform published in Opinion . The only RN mayor of a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants will be opposed to Jordan Bardella, the acting president of the party since September 2021.
“At 52 years old, father, doctor of law, responsible for teaching university then lawyer, I have the training and the will to assume my mandate as mayor and a function of party president” , said this vice-president of the RN in his gallery.
To support his candidacy further, Mr. Aliot also returned to the role he played in the recent victories of the far -right party. “With Marine Le Pen and a few others, I contributed to the development of a popular national line which was validated in the ballot boxes by a large part of the French,” he said, echo the score of 42 % of the candidate in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, followed by the RN breakthrough in the legislative elections. 2> the president will be appointed on November 5
The name of the future president will be known on November 5, during the party congress in Paris. The winner will succeed Marine Le Pen – who now devotes himself to the presidency of the group of 89 RN deputies in the National Assembly – and will sign the end of the Le Pen era at the head of the far -right party.
Former feather of Jean-Marie Le Pen and a time companion of his daughter Marine, whose career he has also taken off, Louis Aliot is a long-standing figure of the party, unlike his 26-year-old competitor, well May the latter be one of the main media and political figures of the RN.
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“Experience, tenacity and pugnacity will be essential qualities,” said Louis Aliot, saying entering a “healthy competition” against Jordan Bardella, who for some embodies a “new generation” RN.
The two men say they are on the same social and identity line, even if Mr. Bardella has focused more on this last aspect by campaigning in the south of France, on the lands of a certain Eric Zemmour . “We must be delighted that different talents but united in their love of France propose to our activists,” said Aliot.