The first round of regional elections is being held in two weeks and the National Rally could be in a position to win several regions.

In several polls, the far-right party comes out on top.

Within the presidential majority, a few voices are raised to establish a republican front.

ANALYSIS

On Sunday June 20 and 27, the French will go to the polls for the regional elections.

And the National Rally arrives, in some territories, at the top of the voting intentions, in the latest polls.

A situation which raises the question of a Republican front in the second round of the ballot, that is to say a withdrawal from the lists less well placed to block the far right.

No coalition

The practice today seems to be having a bad time.

But some actors of the presidential majority would like to bring it up to date.

Like Stéphane Séjourné, MEP and very close advisor to Emmanuel Macron.

In case of triangular with the National Rally, he wants the so-called "republican" lists to merge.

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The republican front envisaged in the ranks of the majority, it is not a political agreement nor a coalition which would be recorded.

The best-placed list would keep control, but this would ensure places for a broad political opposition in regional bodies facing the RN.

The idea is pushed behind the scenes by another adviser to the President: Thierry Solère.

"We must move from the Republican front to a Republican rally to make all voters want to vote," slips a third macronist.

Within the majority, some voices are raised against this practice

But this idea divides the majority.

It would be theorized to try to force Xavier Bertrand's hand in Hauts-de-France, in order to impose LREM on his list in the second round.

Executives denounce "old recipes" or "electoral agreements that feed electoral conspiracy".

For others, "we must stop thinking that the French are idiots".

The method disturbs but for the moment, none seems to have found the miracle solution to counter the RN.

And all agree on one point: the Republican front of the years 1990-2000 no longer exists.