The decision is finally made.
The National Gathering will meet the first weekend of July, in Perpignan, its 17th congress, during which its president Marine Le Pen, should be officially invested by his movement, candidate for the next presidential election.
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The deputy of Pas-de-Calais should, unsurprisingly, also be re-elected by her members for a new term at the head of her movement.
The choice of the largest city in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques to hold this rally owes nothing to chance.
During the last municipal elections, Perpignan became the most important municipality conquered by the movement since Toulon in 1995.
The victory in the city of Occitanie of deputy Louis Aliot had allowed the RN to blur a modest electoral growth compared to 2014.