Its candidate for the Elysée Marine Le Pen had already obtained a score never seen in the second round of the presidential election, with 41.5% of the vote.

The far-right party, which had already gained 5.5 points in the first round, gathering 18.7% of the vote (13.2% in 2017), seems likely to overtake the right-wing party Les Républicains in seats, while that the outgoing presidential coalition Together!

loses the absolute majority against the left alliance Nupes.

In Gironde, land yet little acquired by the RN, the president of the RN group in New Aquitaine Edwige Diaz announced her victory on Twitter.

"We won," shouted RN activists in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), where Marine Le Pen, who should be re-elected hands down, is to speak.

The acting boss of the RN, Jordan Bardella, hailed on TF1 a "tsunami" for his movement.

RN acting president Jordan Bardella during a press conference in Paris, June 13, 2022 JULIEN DE ROSA AFP / Archives

The RN, which came first in the first round in 108 constituencies, achieved this performance despite a majority vote and a lack of alliances with the party of Eric Zemmour Reconquête!, against a background of strong abstention, around by 54%.

With more than 15 elected officials, the RN thus constitutes a group in the National Assembly, for the first time since 1986, which allows it to have more resources and speaking time.

"Minority President"

Marine Le Pen triples the bet compared to the number of deputies that her father had obtained in 1986 (32 from the National Front and 3 from the small conservative movement CNIP).

This group, which sat from 1986 to 1988, named National Front-National Rally was then chaired by the boss of the FN, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Marine Le Pen should chair the RN group.

The presidential finalist had recently said her "desire to lead the battle in the Assembly with a group of deputies" and confided that she had "been extremely frustrated over the past five years, where we did not have the means to fight, where we didn't have the means to express ourselves".

Taking the presidency of the group should lead her to drop the head of the party, coveted half-heartedly by its current interim president Jordan Bardella, and the mayor of Perpignan and vice-president of RN Louis Aliot.

RN leader Marine Le Pen (g) alongside RN mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot (c) in Perpignan, June 8, 2022 RAYMOND ROIG AFP

Marine Le Pen had however struggled to be heard during the campaign in the face of the duel between the coalition of the outgoing majority Together!

and that of the left Nupes.

She had even started her campaign as a near loser, assuring that Emmanuel Macron would obtain a majority, before considering that he might not have an absolute majority.

The far-right official then raised her ambitions, stressing that the RN, which came first in 108 constituencies, could "potentially" get as many seats, and urged her voters to make the head of state a "minority president".

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