His surname is well known to Bretons and sailing enthusiasts.

Florent de Kersauson, brother of the navigator Olivier, will head the list of the National Rally in Morbihan in the regional elections scheduled for June 20 and 27.

The announcement was made this Thursday by Marine Le Pen from Trinité-sur-Mer, stronghold of the family and birthplace of her father Jean-Marie.

Businessman, Florent de Kersauson is a longtime friend of the family.

The head of the party and candidate for the Elysee said she was "very happy" to see the brother of the navigator joining the movement when "he was not at the RN and made the choice to join us". Founder of the Route du Rhum, a single-handed transatlantic sailing race, Florent de Kersauson, aged 71, explained that he joined the RN - without taking his card - out of "disgust" for the Republicans for whom he "voted for 40 years. years ". "I voted for Marine Le Pen for the first time in 2017. I did not trust Emmanuel Macron" and "today the image of the RN has changed". The RN list will be led by Gilles Pennelle, one of the 12 regional councilors elected in 2015.

In La Trinité-sur-Mer, I announced alongside @GillesPennelle, the candidacy of Florent de Kersauson as head of the list in the #Morbihan.



National union is taking place in all regions of France!

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- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) May 6, 2021

Florent de Kersauson worked for 20 years at Alcatel before heading a portfolio management company, Nestadio Capital, for which he was fined in September by the Autorité des marchés financiers, along with a ban on '' exercise the profession of manager or director of a management company for five years.

Brittany, a land of conquest

His brother Olivier de Kersauson learned to sail on Jean-Marie Le Pen's former boat, "General Cambronne", of which he will become the regular skipper, according to the former president of the FN (now RN).

Brittany is a land of conquest for the candidate for the Elysee, who had collected 24.6% of the vote in the second round of the presidential election in 2017 (-9.4 points compared to her national score) and 17.3 % in 2019 Europeans (-6 points).

Morbihan is the Breton department where it achieved its best scores in 2017.

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