The leader of the RassemblementNational, Marine Le Pen, confided - during a visit to the Agricultural Exhibition - that she is "preparing" for a new presidential candidacy in 2027. A three-time losing candidate for the Elysée, this time Le Pen sees the polls as they reward her in a hypothetical second round, both against Gabriel Attal, if the prime minister was a candidate for the outgoing government majority, and against the leader of the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
To journalists who questioned her on several occasions about her intentions in view of the presidential elections, Marine Le Pen replied: "I have been a candidate for the presidential elections 3 times and perhaps I am preparing for a fourth candidacy. I try to behave taking this perspective into account".
Le Pen also confirmed her intention to run by presenting the party's president, Jordan Bardella, as prime minister: "I have made the decision, as a potential presidential candidate, to present to the French the person who would be prime minister if I were elected."
At his side, Bardella said: "The question is no longer whether we will come to power, but when."
At the beginning of February, a poll gave Marine Le Pen the winner for the first time in the possible 2027 presidential run-off: with 51% if the opponent was Attal, with 64% if it were Mélenchon, according to the Ifop polling institute.
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