Legislative: the RN, still in the running in 208 constituencies, finds a smile

“There are little hidden pleasures like that…” smiles this Monday, June 13 in the morning Gilles Pennelle, member of the national office of the National Rally. In this case, that of looking at what score did Eve Froger, the Reconquest candidate in the 4th district of Seine-Maritime, whose deputy was Nicolas Bay, one of the defectors from the RN. Its tiny 4.15% are part of this mass of results that explain the big smiles displayed at party headquarters, the day after the first round of legislative elections. It is that, despite a sluggish campaign, Marine Le Pen’s training improved its 2017 score by nearly 1.26 million votes. That is an increase of 42% and as many more public subsidies. This allows its interim president Jordan Bardella to trumpet that it is “the only dynamic political force”.