“Things are frozen, they will no longer move, we will win”: five months before the presidential election, the RN threatened by excess confidence?

Isn’t there colder than a big hangar? This Saturday, October 24 in the evening, in Orléans (Loiret), here is that of the CO’Met complex, which brings together the Zénith and the city’s Palais des Congrès, occupied by a multitude of stands and garlands. The place was soberly named “the village of the regions”. For two days, the National Rally (RN) set up there to hold its 19th congress, marked by the re-election of Jordan Bardella as party president, and to officially launch Marine Le Pen's campaign on Sunday during a first major meeting.

But Saturday evening, in the hangar, it's a party among the nationalists. The event is supposed to be behind closed doors. The magic of social networks has decided otherwise and a multitude of videos from the evening land on TikTok. In the background, there is a cover of Maniac, the flagship song from the film Flashdance, by a group. And then there are all these deputies, these elected officials, these RN executives who are swaying their hips. The same evening, on…