Gil Pennell He developed the so-called Matignon Plan, named after the Prime Minister's Office, which aimed to prepare the party to govern in the event of early elections. Relying on this Jordan Bardella Party leader and Marine Le Pen The leader of the National Assembly faction has regularly called for elections in recent months. Emmanuel Macron From the head of state.
Three weeks after that European Parliament Elections In response to the result, the President of the Republic dissolved the lower house of parliament and called for early elections. The National Front party and its allies achieved their best ever result in the first round, obtaining a third of the votes, but
In the second round, they came in third and only managed to win 143 of the 289 mandates needed to govern, the RN's stated goal.
We wrote yesterday that according to the announcement of French President Emmanuel Macron, the matter will continue. Gabriel Attal He remains the prime minister of France, even though the ruling party's political camp lost its majority in the parliamentary elections and the politician announced his resignation the day before yesterday.
While party leaders had previously declared that “one just has to press a button,” Matignon Plan Given that the FN gubernatorial candidates are ready in all constituencies, given the number of candidates in the campaign between the two rounds, they had to explain, among other things, why
Because he has proven unprepared or expressed his racist beliefs on his social media pages.
Jordan BardellaThe head of the National Rally party took responsibility for his party's defeat on Monday.
We make mistakes all the time, and I've made a few.
– The party leader said.
We need to improve our local inclusion and the selection of specific candidates. I can say clearly that in some constituencies we have not made good choices.
Bardella said.
As mentioned, Jordan Bardella will be the head of the Patriots for Europe faction, which will be formed with the participation of Fidesz and the National Democratic Party.
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