For the first time in history, the party will not be led by a Le Pen, and it remains to be seen whether it will remain in the hands of Bardella or Aliot, although Marine Le Pen will continue to rule as leader in the National Assembly.
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Marine Le Pen will hand over the baton from the far-right National Group at this weekend’s congress, which will be held in the midst of a major controversy over racism over proclamations launched by one of his deputies in the National Assembly, and two figures Very close to her, they have confirmed their intention to chair the main opposition party: the young MEP Jordan Bardella and the experienced politician and mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot.
While she will remain the de facto leader of the formation, Le Pen, 54, from her position as leader of her 89 deputies in the French Assembly, decided it was time to divest herself of her party responsibilities, precisely to take up that parliamentary work. It will be the first time the party has not had Le Pen as its official leader.
The candidates are on the one hand his current right arm and partner of his niece Jordan Bardella (26 years old); and the one who was his partner for 10 years (2009-2019), Aliot (52), on the other.
The finalist for the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections stated that “she will not take sides” with either of the two candidates, despite her clear sympathy for Bardellawho has held the provisional presidency since Le Pen started the presidential battle last spring.
Born in 1995 in the Parisian suburbs of the Saint-Denis department to an immigrant family of Italian descent, the young man with swept back hair and a slender figure is a dazzling and early rise. Militant since he was 16 years old, secretary of the party (then called the National Front) since he was 19 and parliamentary assistant since he was 20.
Personal ties also connect the leader of the RN to the other candidate, Louis Aliot. The two had been a couple for ten years and their relationship, at least publicly, does not appear to have deteriorated.
The political lines of both opponents are similar, albeit with some nuances.
Bardella maintains a tougher anti-immigration trend, in the style of polemicist and former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour (defender of a conspiracy plan that would replace the Judeo-Christian population with an Arab-Muslim population).
Aliot, for his part, has made an effort to distance himself from Zemmour’s semantics and is more in favor of defining the struggle as what they call Muslim sectarianism in France.
racist incident
Congress is being held in the midst of a major controversy over an incident that shocked the French National Assembly on Thursday when, during a debate on immigrants, a far-right deputy launched a cry that was interpreted by many members of the chamber as a racist remark against a black legislator.
The delegate speaking at the time was Carlos Mertens Bilongo, a member of the left-wing La Francia Insumisa (LFI) party, who drew attention to the situation of about a thousand immigrants who were rescued by three lifeboats belonging to as many NGOs, searched for – so far without success – disembarkation ports.
Then the cry was heard “let them go back to Africa” or “let them go back to Africa” (the French pronunciation is almost identical), and the LFI deputies felt that the singular had been used to insult their colleague.
This led to a violent verbal diatribe that forced the Speaker of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivot, to adjourn the session.
The parliamentarian, one of the National Group’s 89 deputies, assured in other statements that he was actually saying “go back to Africa”, a comment he says has been “manipulated” by the LFI deputies.
De Fournas insisted his comment was not about Mertens, but about “immigrants from the boats”, and criticized the LFI deputies for looking for “sterile polemics”. “I’m not going to apologize for something I didn’t do,” he added.
Le Pen himself later came out to defend her deputy, insisting that De Fournas “referred to the migrants being transported by the NGO boats”, and believed that a “gross controversy” had arisen.
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Source: EITB
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