The municipal vintage turned out to be bitter in more ways than one for the National Rally in June 2020. But a glimmer on the evening of the second round was enough, to a large extent, to dispel the disappointment of Marine Le Pen's party: that announcing the imminent death of the "republican front"
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illustrated by the victory of Louis Aliot in Perpignan, in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
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At the end of a third attempt, the deputy rocked the most important city in the history of the RN from Toulon, in 1995. What impresses then is not so much the 120,000 inhabitants of the Catalan city as to have it. conquered in a duel.
Faced with all the left-wing political forces up to La République en Marche, united in the second round behind the outgoing mayor Les Républicains, Jean-Marc Pujol.
"The republican front no longer works,
" noted the new RN mayor of Perpignan, elected with 53% of the vote.
People are no longer mobilizing to block, there have been too many precedents… We now have almost more
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