RN deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône Franck Allisio calls this “act 2” of the RPR. The first act took place last June when this former LR launched, with the mayor of Marignane Éric Le Disses, a movement to bring together elected officials from the right and the National Rally (RN). Her name ? The famous Rally for the Republic therefore, which dissolved into the UMP in 2002, according to the wishes of Jacques Chirac and Alain Juppé. A use made possible thanks to the repurchase by the RN, in March 2022, of the former name of the right-wing party.

The little RPR version RN is expanding its ranks a little more this Saturday, October 14. According to our information, the boss of the Les Républicains (LR) federation of Aube and municipal and community councilor of Carcassonne, Édouard Jourdan, as well as around ten LR elected officials and former UMP elected officials, will announce their membership in this movement . An RN deputy will also take his card: Christophe Barthès, who had been a member of the original RPR until 1997.

Franck Allisio has a clear objective: to allow disengaged LR elected officials to get closer to the RN of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella without joining it. This association aims to “bring together all those who believe in France, who want to turn the Macronist page and block the left,” he argues.

The Frontist MP also specifies: “The new RPR being open to all, new recruits naturally keep their LR cards”. A useful clarification that could attract his right-wing local elected officials, he wants to believe. In any case, he is convinced of one thing: that this rally will embarrass Éric Ciotti, president of LR, who will have to react. Should he sanction these elected officials who decide to get closer to the RN?

The original operation had been validated by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, both benevolent towards initiatives aimed at disrupting LR. In 2012, there was the Navy Blue Rally. In 2019, Thierry Mariani reactivated the Popular Right when he joined the RN. Recovering the RPR name also has a virtue for the Frontist staff: preventing Éric Zemmour from using it.