The fall of François Bayrou, the “best possible springboard” for the RN

In 2025, the National Rally (RN) “had a difficult few months,” writes El País . Between Marine Le Pen’s conviction in the parliamentary assistants affair in March and the raids on the party’s headquarters, suspected of illicit financing, in July, the far-right party was not as buoyant as it was in the summer of 2024. “But French political life, which had been turbulent until then, seemed to have given it a respite on Tuesday morning,” the Spanish newspaper continues. Just days before the confidence vote that risks bringing down François Bayrou ’s government, the party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen is once again on the lookout.

While the two RN leaders – Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen – confirmed this Tuesday, September 2, after a meeting with the Prime Minister at Matignon, that they would bring down the government on September 8, they announced that they wanted to dissolve the National Assembly immediately. Marine Le Pen could not benefit from this immediately due to her sentence of ineligibility with provisional execution, but for the RN “it is above all a question of conquering the executive and weakening Macron through new elections,” analyzes the center-left Madrid daily. What is more, whether she is a candidate for deputy or not, “Marine Le Pen would be fi