French populist Marine Le Pen has announced she will be stepping down as leader of the National Rally to focus on her new parliamentary group after the RN outperformed expectations at last week’s elections, winning 89 seats.
, is expected to be a main candidate for the presidency, along with the Mayor of the city of Perpignan Louis Aliot, who has previously expressed an interest in running for the party leadership.
“Marine Le Pen will chair the largest parliamentary group and thus be the largest opposition to Macron… We were only seven in Parliament, not even forming a group and today, the National Rally is officially the first opposition group with its 89 members. This is historic and quite exceptional given the very unfavourable voting system in place,” he said.
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