Marine Le Pen is back on the campaign trail.
The day after her defeat in the presidential election with 41.5% of the vote, the unfortunate candidate confirmed, from her HQ, her candidacy for the legislative elections in Pas-de-Calais.
A constituency in which she was elected in 2017 with 58.60% of the vote.
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This decision is a continuation of his speech delivered on Sunday evening.
As soon as her defeat was made official, Marine Le Pen called on her activists to engage in “
the legislative battle
”, supposed to allow the “
national current
” to become “
real opposition
”.
In the media, his lieutenants have also succeeded in promoting the National Rally as a future counter-power to Emmanuel Macron.
“
Send as many as possible, a battalion of RN deputies to be the opposition.
Do not entrust this role to anyone else
”, thus launched Sébastien Chenu, deputy for the North.
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Five years ago, only eight members of the flame party entered the National Assembly, despite the presence of Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election.
With some three million additional votes in the return match against Emmanuel Macron, the RN hopes to increase its weight in the Hemicycle and thus influence the policy of the mandate to come.