A close vote in the Ardennes left Marine Le Pen’s RN with 124 lawmakers, which is a setback, but it remains the largest party in the 577-seat parliament
Marine Le Pen, president of the French far-right National Rally party, and MP Burno Bilde are pictured at the National Assembly in Paris on Dec. 4.far-right National Rally suffered a surprise by-election loss late on Sunday, in what its critics said was a sign of voters punishing it for its push last week to topple former prime ministerThe close vote in the Ardennes left Marine Le Pen’s RN with 124 lawmakers – a setback, though it remains the largest party in the 577-seat parliament.
One of them, Green party leader Marine Tondelier, said the RN had “put themselves out of the game” and that the party’s influence over national politics was waning as a result of its decision to topple Barnier. The RN’s Jordan Duflot, who got the most votes in the first round and called for the toppling of the government during campaigning in the second round, won 49.1%.Vuibert’s “victory … is a strong signal” against “those who want censorship, inaction and chaos,” Xavier Bertrand, a centre-right politician who has been mooted by the press as a possible prime minister, wrote on X.
“Attention to the daily lives of the French prevails over the chaos desired by Marine Le Pen and the extremes,” Attal wrote on X.In a sign of the importance of the vote, RN party president Jordan Bardella travelled to the district to drum up support for Duflot, but it was not enough.
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