Raised in Paris’s disadvantaged northern suburbs, he joined the National Rally (formerly National Front) at the age of 16 and was elected its president in 2022.
Bardella is being widely hailed for the National Rally’s triumph in last week’s European elections, where it won aboutof the vote, more than double the share of the vote won by French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance Party coalition. Ciotti’s Republicans received 7.25 percent of the votes.French President Emmanuel Macron called for a surprise early election, after far-right parties surged in the European Parliament elections on June 9.
While the National Rally trounced other parties at this month’s European elections, it is not clear how much of their gains will translate in a national election.A number of French polls have suggested the National Rally could get support from about one-third of voters in the first round of voting in June, but it is unclear if they would win enough seats to get a majority.
Ciotti said the parties share similar positions on issues such as immigration, and called for an end to the “fictitious opposition” to working with the far right. “We are no longer in the aftermath of World War II,” he said.The Republicans have experienced a sharp decline in political support in France, and Ciotti has probably calculated that his party could have more of an impact by aligning itself with the rising far right.
If the National Rally and its allies win a majority of seats in the legislative elections, Bardella will probably be named prime minister, forcing what’s known as a cohabitation government, with Macron as president for the remainder of his term until 2027 and Bardella as prime minister. In fact, the National Rally has already startedthat a vote for the National Rally in the legislative elections will lead to Bardella as head of the government.
A majority of seats in the National Assembly and its party leader as prime minister would give the National Rally more power than it has had before to push its ideas into the political mainstream and to prevent Macron from enacting his agenda.
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