Some deputies refuse to leave their post as departmental delegate, as the Party Director of the Party was originally wished, appointed at the end of 2022. The reorganization was entrusted to an elected representative of Vaucluse, formerly condemned by justice.
By Clément Guillou
When he took, in November 2022, his duties as director general of the National Rally (RN), appointed by Jordan Bardella, Gilles Pennelle, former professor of history-geography, hit hard on the desk and promised a swift sweep. In order to put the party back in working order, it seemed necessary to him that the deputies did not accumulate their function with that, volunteer, of departmental delegate of the party. It is easier, we observe internally, to dictate its law to a novice departmental delegate. Popular students pretended not to understand the instructions: Sébastien Chenu, in the North, and Franck Allisio, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, two of the biggest federations, hung on to their office. Three months later, they are still there, with the blessing of Jordan Bardella.
Twenty-three deputies were affected by this rule, in which the new president of the RN hardly believed. In February, half of them are still departmental delegates. “This is not a problem, I did not want to make generality,” says Jordan Bardella in the world. But yes, on the principle, many deputies are overloaded and could not do the work of departmental delegate. The card Recto verso visit, at one point, it no longer holds. “
The changes of departmental delegates are not smooth. In January, Le Figaro has uncovered tensions in the federations of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Vendée or Corsica, where some activists criticize the Parisian headquarters a form contempt. “It is the life of a political movement, you will always find material to make articles of this type, sweeps Jordan Bardella. But we are as close as possible to the problems. There are videoconferences with departmental frames every two weeks . “
Islamophobic videos
Some profiles suggest the difficulty of the party in renewing its local executives. In the Hautes-Alpes, it is a 75-year-old man, Armel Brisson de la Messardière, who is responsible for revitalizing the federation. Ephemeral head of the list in the 1 er Marseille sector, at the municipal elections of 2014, it had been exfiltrated after the newspaper Marianne had spotted racist publications on his Facebook account. Here it is again nine years later, with presentable social networks.
More than that of the new departmental delegate of Isère, Olivier Guyot, who relays Islamophobic videos or, until the summer of 2021, messages hostile to Marine Le Pen or Pro-Zemmour. In this big federation, the outgoing, the deputy Alexis Jolly, had however recommended another profile.
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