The National Rally (RN, far-right), Marine Le Pen’s party, officially launched its European election campaign yesterday with a large rally in Marseille in which Eurosceptic reflections and attacks on President Emmanuel Macron abounded. The polls have been showing the RN as the clear favorite for months, about ten percentage points ahead of the Macronist party, Renacimiento.
In Marseille, the president of the party took center stage, the young Jordan Bardella, today an MEP and who once again heads the list of Europeans, although always tutored by Le Pen, his godmother and protector, three times candidate for the Elysée and a probable new candidate in 2027.
Bardella focused his speech on the immigration issue and the rural crisis, both issues in which Brussels politics appears, for the French extreme right, as the culprit of all evils, with the complicity of Macron during the seven years that takes in the Elysée. Le Pen will appear, symbolically, in the last place on the list, to reaffirm the cohesion in the distribution of roles with Bardella. The Marseille rally served to present the party’s latest signing, Fabrice Leggeri, controversial former head of Frontex, the European border control agency, who is number three.
