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The RN presents 569 legislative candidates, including Marine Le Pen and her sister Marie-Caroline

The National Rally announced on Wednesday that it had invested 569 candidates in the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, including several personalities from the movement, but not its interim president, Jordan Bardella. Marine Le Pen, presidential finalist and MP for Pas-de-Calais, is standing in the 11^e constituency of the department.

His older sister Marie-Caroline Le Pen, who had returned to politics in the 2021 regional elections in Ile-de-France, where she was elected regional councilor, is running in the 6^e constituency of Hauts-de-Seine. She will notably have as an adversary the ex-LR Constance Le Grip, who joined the presidential coalition.

Marine Le Pen’s press officer, Caroline Parmentier, regional councilor in Ile-de-France, presents herself in the 9^e constituency of Pas-de-Calais in Béthune.

MPs Bruno Bilde (12^e from Pas-de-Calais) and Sébastien Chenu (19^e du Nord), two relatives of Marine Le Pen, are candidates for their own succession. As well as Nicolas Meizonnet (2^e du Gard), who took over from Gilbert Collard when the latter was elected, in 2019, MEP. Mr. Collard has since joined Eric Zemmour.

But the RN did not invest the former identity manager Philippe Vardon, because of his ” doubts “ on the candidacy of Marine Le Pen, in the 3^e constituency of Alpes-Maritimes, where he supports Benoît Kandel, former deputy mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi.

Mr. Bardella mentioned a dozen parachute drops, including those, in Moselle, of RN spokesman Laurent Jacobelli and RN communications director Alexandre Loubet.

The RN did not present a candidate against Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, former ally of Marine Le Pen in 2017, in Essonne, nor against Emmanuelle Ménard, outgoing deputy RN, in Hérault.

On the other hand, the youth manager at Eric Zemmour, Stanislas Rigault, approached by Mr. Bardella, will have an RN candidate facing him, Bénédicte Auzanot.

The RN also presents a candidate, Roger Chudeau, ex-LR pro-Fillon, in the constituency of Guillaume Peltier, vice-president of Reconquest! (2^e Loir-et-Cher).

He also invested a candidate, Philippe Lottiaux, in the 4^e constituency of Var (Saint-Tropez), watched closely by Eric Zemmour, who hesitates to get started.