
After the riots and looting of October 17 in France, Marine Le Pen delivered a solemn declaration at her office while Jordan Bardella visited a Parisian police station, resuming their respective roles of presidential posture and prime minister, in a context of past criticism from Mediapart on anti-Semitic remarks attributed to Bardella in 2013.
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The October 17 protests sparked riots and looting in France, amid persistent social tensions. The National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, seeks to capitalize on insecurity to strengthen its image as a party of order.
The choreography is well known, but it has rarely been staged to this extent. In the aftermath of the riots and looting that shook France during and since the demonstrations of October 17, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella played to the full the roles they assigned to themselves several years ago: to her the presidential posture, via a solemn declaration pronounced at her office; to him the mission of “prime minister”, with field visits and martial speeches. The National Rally (RN) pair had not orchestrated things like this since the party's chaotic return to the flames, and especially not since the first Mediapart articles accusing Jordan Bardella of having written anti-Semitic comments in 2013.
The reality is that we are paying for decades of disarmament of our police, security disarmament, and legal disarmament of our police.
Jordan Bardella
This has been done since, on Sunday afternoon, taking stock of the violence of the day before, Jordan Bardella went into the field to visit a police station in the center of Paris. There, the president of the RN did not chew…
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The National Rally will intensify its communication on the theme of insecurity in the coming weeks
Likely · Within weeks
Marine Le Pen will continue to use solemn declarations to embody a presidential posture
Very likely · Within weeks

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