What is the National Rally's strategy for the legislative elections?

Victor Chabert, edited by Solène Leroux 07:38, April 27, 2022

Seven weeks before the first round of the legislative elections, the negotiations to reach an agreement promise to be complicated, on the right as on the left.

At the National Rally, the question of an agreement with Reconquest has been resolved: no possible alliance with the party of Éric Zemmour.

A refusal which will not prevent the RN from supporting certain personalities, on an individual basis.

This time, the objective is clearly defined: to obtain the maximum number of deputies, which means not making the same mistakes as in 2017. First of all, the legislative campaign will be actively supported by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella.

Unlike 2017, they will therefore be involved in a third-round strategy.

They want to embody the main opposition to Emmanuel Macron.

Their objective is to retain a maximum of the 13 million votes obtained last Sunday.

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143 constituencies where the RN came first

In 2017, this number had collapsed from ten to three million between the presidential election and the first round of legislative elections.

The National Rally had finally obtained only seven deputies.

The staff this time identified 143 constituencies where it came out on top.

Thirty are even certainly winnable according to the calculations of the strategists.

All marine executives have therefore been invested.

If they obtain a significant number of seats, these legislative elections could take on the air of a rebirth for the RN.

Territorially first, since the National Rally would thus have a real network, embodied by a new generation of elected officials.

But also financially: part of the public funding of political parties comes from the legislative elections, and Marine Le Pen's party is in debt.