Le Pen confirms that if the National Rally wins the legislative elections, Bardella will be prime minister

June 10 () –

Marine Le Pen, of the far-right National Rally, confirmed this Monday that if her party wins the legislative elections, it will be Jordan Bardella, head of the list for the European elections, who will occupy the position of prime minister.

“I have always told the French that we have been working for months as an executive couple with the aim of better fulfilling the functions that the French would entrust to us: I as the Presidency of the Republic and he as Prime Minister,” he said during an interview. with the TF1 chain.

Le Pen has also reported that she will be a candidate for the legislative elections and that if the National Rally wins the elections they will carry out the measures they have proposed in their electoral program, focused on security, migration and the economy.

“I believe that we have a historic opportunity to allow the national side to get France back on track. To do so, we must be able to meet and open ourselves to all, of good will, those who are patriots who disagree with Emmanuel Macron to build a stable majority,” he said. indicated.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced on Sunday the dissolution of the National Assembly and the call for elections after the release of the first exit polls, which already anticipated a fateful night for his political movement.

The victory of the National Rally – with 30 MEPs – and the electoral advance has forced all parties to make a move in France. Macron’s allied parties currently have a simple majority in the Lower House and, based on the results of the European elections, it seems difficult for them to expand their room for maneuver.

The next presidential elections are not scheduled until 2027, a calendar that is maintained for now. The loss of the majority in the National Assembly would not necessarily imply Macron’s resignation, but the president may be forced into ‘cohabitation’.

In France, the forced coexistence between the president and the government of different political groups is known as ‘cohabitation’. It has occurred three times during the Fifth Republic, the last of them between 1997 and 2002.