Paris, June 19, 2022 – Legislative in Francia“A tsunami“: historic result for the National Gathering (RN) in Marine Le Pen which buys up seats at the Assemblée Nationale, establishing itself as the third force in parliament in the crucial ballots for the second round of the legislative elections.
According to the projections announced at the close of the polls, the nationalist party would have obtained between 60 and 100 deputies, in front of the right of the Républicains (LR). Numbers never seen before for the former Front National, which now allow the defeated candidate by Emmanuel Macron in the presidential elections on April 24 to form a group at the Assemblée for the first time.
The feat of Marine Le pen
“The people have spoken. Overcoming the obstacle of a particularly unjust electoral law, they have decided to send a powerful group of parliamentarians to the Assembly, which thus becomes a little more national. It is by far the larger group of all our political history “, Le Pen exulted, acclaimed by the cry of” Marine, Marine, Marine “in his fief of Hénin-Beaumont, in the north of the country.
Addressing the militants half an hour after the announcement of the results, theally of Matteo Salvini he evoked the “triumph of the salvific idea of nation”. He then assured that his party “will embody a firm opposition, without messes, but responsible, respectful of the institutions and always constructive. Our only compass is the interest of France and the French people”, he guaranteed.
Le Pen had already collected a record number of votes in the ballot of the presidential elections on April 24, with 41.5% of the votes. In Gironde, the lepenist candidate Edwige Diaz defeated the current Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, who was therefore forced to resign from her post in the government.