Marine Le Pen, in Narbonne, reaffirms her authority

Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen, at the May 1st meeting of the National Rally, in Narbonne (Aude), on May 1, 2025. OLIVIER MONGE / MYOP FOR “LE MONDE”

The duet is almost as out of tune as the chorus of Douce France , sung by the first vice-president of the National Rally (RN), Louis Aliot, in front of 8,000 supporters (party figures) in honor of Charles Trenet, a native of Narbonne, where the party held its traditional ^May 1st meeting. Since her sentence of five years of ineligibility with provisional execution in the affair of the fictitious assistants of the European Parliament , Marine Le Pen has struggled to set the tempo of her "duet" with Jordan Bardella.

The RN leader then took advantage of the event to attempt to clarify the situation by recalling that the "duo" she forms with her youngest son in no way presages a handover for the presidential election in 2027.

"For thirty days, it is for my honor and my innocence that I have had to engage in a new battle with the sole aim of representing you in two years' time at the next presidential election," asserts the president of the RN group in the National Assembly, while speculation about "plan A" or "plan B" has been rocking the Le Penist ship since March 31.

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