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While Jordan Bardella formalized his candidacy for the presidency of the RN on Wednesday August 31, while Louis Aliot launched his campaign on August 27 near Perpignan. The eldest of the two candidates wants to rely on the main RN federations in the regions.
He wants to play the rat of the fields against the rat of the cities. While Jordan Bardella will make his political comeback with a major interview on September 4 on BFM and a trip to the Châlons-en-Champagne fair, Louis Aliot, who launched his campaign for the presidency of the party in front of 200 supporters in Baixas, on August 27, a few kilometers from Perpignan, an express tour of the federations was organised. Time is running out until voting closes on November 3. So the mayor of Perpignan, who managed to free himself two days a week, decided to first favor the largest RN federations in number of members: Bouches-duRhône, Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Var and Vaucluse .
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An important moment is planned around the weekend of September 24 in Hénin-Beaumont with the mayor, Steeve Briois, and the deputy Bruno Bilde. In October, the former number 2 of the FN will address “peripheral and rural France” and will go in particular to Tarn and Aude. And of course in “his” federation of the PyrénéesOrientales, “the largest in terms of number of members per inhabitant”, assure his supporters. The boss of the Hérault RN, Frédéric Bort, who supports his candidacy, describes “a field campaign, because the future of the movement is not only played out on TV sets”. And adds: “It is a militant approach, very calm and very relaxed, perhaps because we are from the South…”