Marine Le Pen succeeded her father as head of the National Front.
She now succeeds him as president of the group in the National Assembly, 34 years after this group disappeared, thanks to the restoration of the majority vote, in 1988. While she hinted that she could leave the hand of the party after the presidential election, without formalizing it formally until then, she explicitly announced that she would be president of the RN group on May 18 during a trip to Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne), in response to a question from the Parisian - Today in France.
“In 2017, she found it unfair that Jean-Luc Mélenchon was group president and not her”, confides a relative while with eight elected officials or relatives, the FN did not have the means to form a group, there are five years.
By taking the lead of this group, Marine Le Pen can ensure control over significant human and financial resources as well as a large media platform.
Especially since she reached it when her rival Jean-Luc Mélenchon preferred not to represent himself at the Palais-Bourbon.
Consult the results of the legislative elections, constituency by constituency.
Follow the results in particular in Paris, Marseille or Lyon.
As well as the results in the districts of Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-d'Oise, Essonne, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines and in Oise.
On the strength of her status as a finalist in the presidential election and her breakthrough in the second round of the legislative elections, she will not fail to claim loud and clear a status of "first opponent" to Emmanuel Macron.
“She has taken a step back on internal affairs since leaving the party to Jordan Bardella.
She is happy with her freedom and has total confidence in him”, explains one of his advisers to explain why this choice of group presidency is made in parallel with the abandonment of the leadership of the party.
“She will not do Jean-Marie Le Pen”
To her, the noble legislative fight against the executive.
To his successor in the party, the kitchen (and the internal "bullshit").
But what should be translated from this “Yalta” with RN sauce?
Is it a question of passing the baton smoothly in view of 2027 in order to contribute to "seeing the emergence of a new elite", as she had declared to Figaro in mid-May?
Or is it above all a question of not disappearing in order to keep the leadership?
At RN, everyone has a different answer.
“She will not do Jean-Marie Le Pen
(who, after his departure from the presidency of the FN, interfered a lot)
.
She will be more of a tutelary figure, ”hopes a source close to Jordan Bardella.
“The only leader is Marine Le Pen.
The role of party structures has evolved and weakened.
For 2027, Jordan is young, he will wait…”, argues an RN executive on the contrary.
The only certainty: in this position, Marine Le Pen will remain in the political landscape.
“If they think I'm going to disappear with a wave of a magic wand…”, she gritted last January, targeting her internal and external adversaries.
