While the party is looking for its new head, its patriarch invites the 89 RN deputies to be more “aggressive towards power”.
The former leader of the National Front, which became the National Rally, Jean-Marie Le Pen deplored in theSunday newspaper “a certain lack of media” RN deputies, calling on them to “react” while being “aggressive towards power“. “Is it voluntary? It’s not suresaid the 94-year-old FN co-founder.
Getting annoyed that “when we refer to the right, we constantly hear about the Republicans, but never the RN“, which nevertheless has a record number of 89 deputies, Jean-Marie Le Pen estimated that”in politics, it is not enough to exist, it is necessary to make it known“. “I find them silent. They have to react“, he urged.
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Asked about the RN’s strategy of maintaining a “reasonable position” in the Assembly, Jean-Marie Le Pen asked the troops “to be aggressive towards power“.
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“A series of difficulties” for Emmanuel Macron
Emanuel Macronwill have to face a series of major difficulties during the second five-year term. And this is where an opposition formation like the RN can appear as an alternative“, he argued, recalling that “the goal of political action is the exercise of power“.
“The executives who emerged during these legislative elections must prepare for it. Eighty-nine deputies in the National Assembly, it is not yet the power, but almost“, he underlined.
As the campaign for the succession of his daughter Marine Le Pen at the head of the party began, the former FN executive indicated that he would not take a position between the two candidates, MEP Jordan Bardella, and the mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot. “I will not support anyone. Members choose. I have no preference“, he insisted.