Presidential 2027: Marine Le Pen claims to be a “natural candidate” for the RN

2023-09-19 16:19:29

“I am the natural candidate of my camp” in 2027: by announcing, or almost, her competition for the next presidential election, Marine Le Pen wanted to clarify on Monday the distribution of roles with Jordan Bardella, whom she intends to make her Prime Minister in the event of victory.

The exit of the far-right leader on TF 1’s 8 p.m. show is certainly not a surprise: until then, she was content in private to use convoluted formulations, saying she was “a candidate as long as she ) had not decided not to be.”

But she aims to put an end to speculation, rumors and predictions, sometimes even within the National Rally, fueled by the popularity – supported by polls – of her young foal who succeeded her at the head of the party. last year and which will once again lead the RN list to the Europeans next June.

Could it also take its turn in 2027? Monday evening, the three-time unsuccessful candidate for the Élysée replied: “A priori no, for the moment, as long as I have not decided otherwise.” Before assuring: “I am the natural candidate of my camp for the presidential election”.

The intervention also completes a clarification of roles begun this weekend, on the occasion of the National Rally’s summer universities: questioned by several journalists about a rumor which gave Marine Le Pen the intention of appointing Jordan Bardella to Matignon in the event of victory in 2027, the two interested parties were initially content not to deny, smirking.

“Yes, Jordan Bardella will make a very good Prime Minister,” Marine Le Pen then said on Saturday evening in front of a France 5 camera, in a sequence broadcast on Monday.

Jordan Bardella now displays a form of independence

“There is a desire for complementarity in the perspective of 2027”, explained personalities of the RN in recent weeks, while Jordan Bardella affirms a form of independence, far from the chaperoning of 2019 when, aged 23, he had already been propelled to the Europeans, but under the control of Marine Le Pen.

From now on, the one who makes his arrival at the top in the June election an essential milestone in the conquest of power, authorizes himself to shake up the Lepenist doxa, by proposing for example a new divide between “power” and “forces of renunciation”, when Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter theorized the clash between “globalists” and “nationalists”, or “popular bloc” and “elite bloc”, while refusing the duality of “right” versus “left”.

An affront ? “No, everything is superimposed”, swear the leaders of the ex-National Front, according to whom the “duo” performs a written score in concert, “even if each can sometimes improvise, because they are both virtuosos”.

VIDEO. Largely elected at the head of the RN, Jordan Bardella succeeds Marine Le Pen

And if Jordan Bardella launches appeals to the right, privately calling on his troops to “remake the UMP”, even if it means adapting his speech to better seduce small bosses, Marine Le Pen welcomes this attempt to ‘enlargement. Especially since it is not affecting its more popular electoral base.

Difficult, therefore, to find real detractors of Jordan Bardella within the executives of the RN. The strategy of presenting him as President Le Pen’s future Prime Minister, on the other hand, raised the eyebrows of some of them, smelling the trap: by insisting until now on “lack of experience” and “youth » of the MEP to justify his inability to compete in 2027, the Marinists have given weapons to their political adversaries to delegitimize this ticket, they fear. “Le Pen is the best,” says a faithful, and “in any case, we’re always three steps ahead.”