The regional adviser of Brittany Front National Gilles Pennelle, here December 18, 2015. -

C. Allain / 20 Minutes

It's not a surprise, just confirmation.

On Tuesday, the National Gathering officially designated Gilles Pennelle as head of the list in the regional elections in Brittany.

Installed in Fougères, in Ille-et-Vilaine, the man is known to have established the frontist party in a region where it did not exist.

In the last regional election in 2015, the FN list obtained 18% of the vote, winning twelve seats in the regional council then chaired by Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Since 2017 and his appointment as minister, the former mayor of Lorient had given way to the socialist Loïg Chesnais-Girard, who will be a candidate for his succession.

Departmental secretary of the National Rally, Gilles Pennelle has become one of the right-hand men of the president of the Marine Le Pen movement.

"Faced with a right in full rout, a discredited and deeply divided regional majority and a president of a very weakened socialist region, I am, in this fragmented Breton political landscape, the candidate who can win victory," responded Gilles Pennelle in a statement. communicated.

The list of candidates already well supplied

The man that the RN candidate considers "very weak" will again be a candidate but not for the presidential majority.

Former mayor of Liffré, Loïg Chesnais-Girard will undoubtedly be difficult to dislodge, as the region has taken root on the left since the election of Jean-Yves Le Drian in 2004. As for the Republicans, we still do not know who will be head of the list and will succeed Marc Le Fur.

The name of former MP Isabelle Le Callennec is circulating.

On the left, it is especially the division that lurks.

The Greens have appointed Claire Desmares-Poirrier as head of the list but will have to count on the presence of Daniel Cueff, mayor of Langouët known for his fight against pesticides.

It remains to be seen whether La République en Marche will invest a candidate.

Jean-Yves Le Drian has already made it known that he would not be.

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