"
Nothing is lost, there is still a way
" to victory in the presidential election, assured the number two of the National Rally Jordan Bardella in front of the RN congress meeting on Saturday in Perpignan, a week after the party's defeat in the regional .
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"
There was this bitter taste of failed victory as we touched it with our fingers
" and "
we must learn the lessons of this desert of abstention,
" said the second vice-president of the party, applauded by several hundred activists standing.
"
Abstention is the refuge of despair, of the feeling that nothing is possible any more and that all is lost
" but "
I say it to you with force (...) nothing will be lost and there is still a way
”, assured the young person in charge of the RN who could ensure the interim at the head of the party during the presidential campaign of Marine Le Pen. "
We are there, alive and well, (...) ready to go back into action
", he declared. But "
we have no right to doubt
", added Jordan Bardella, while the failure of the RN to regional generated criticism internally and at the periphery of the party on its operation, its local presence, or its "
standardization
”.
Referring to the need for an "
examination of conscience
", he denounced these criticisms of the "
stashed
", "
deserters
" who "
shoot in the back of the front line combatants
".
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To opponents of the RN, he said: “
Do not waste your energy in the preparations for our burial.
Our breath will never be exhausted, as long as we do not obtain what generations of activists have fought for (...): victory in the presidential election
”.
On a more bitter tone, the ex-candidate of the RN in Paca Thierry Mariani accused a "
coalition system
" which "
wanted to block the access of the RN to the management of our regions
" and "
rentiers of abstention from first round
"which"
turned into profiteers from the demonization of the second round
".
The former Minister Sarkozyste defended the "
strategy of openness
" and "
the outstretched hand
" of the RN, by welcoming Marine Le Pen to a candidate for the Elysee having "
the courage and the material to lead this
presidential
fight
" which “
cannot be improvised
”.
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RN: The failure of demonization?