The Pen-Bardella: put to the test of sharing roles

From a political point of view, the subject of immigration has two advantages. It points to a weakness in power. Marine Le Pen makes it a strong focus of her back-to-school speech, she who now targets Emmanuel Macron who will not be a candidate in 2027 less directly than her “system” (Attal in the lead). It also suits the ears of the right. Jordan Bardella is also going all out on this theme, since for the European elections in June, he is primarily addressing the LR electorate.

On the economy, however, the new sharing of roles between the two heads of the RN is less obvious. The future presidential candidate is not changing her social discourse one bit. She will undoubtedly face a successor to Emmanuel Macron, she bets: she therefore castigates his record, his “mercantile individualism”, and the “generalized collapse” of public services. For schools, we must start by “significantly increasing teachers’ salaries,” she says, while pretending to be worried about the soaring debt.