At a meeting in Loiret, the RN and its allies united against Brussels and behind Marine Le Pen

United and offensive, they denounced the court decision that could prevent Ms. Le Pen from running in 2027. "Neither here nor anywhere else in Europe will we let them prevent people from choosing their leaders," she told the several thousand galvanized supporters who came to cheer her on in a farmyard in Mormant-sur-Vernisson.

With blazing sun, the smell of frying and the obligatory sea of ​​blue, white and red flags, the three-time presidential candidate, asserting that "they want to prohibit (her), by violating all the principles of law (...) from running" again, launched a heavy attack against a European Union described as "a mercantile, woke, ultra-liberal empire", accused of "putting its energy into a planned war project".

His young successor, Jordan Bardella, unanimously denounced a "bureaucratic monster governed by technocrats" and its "European pact for migration (...) which forces France to distribute migrants among our towns and villages."

A huge success in the applause, and a demonstration of loyalty between the leader of the RN and her likely replacement if the appeal court were to confirm Marine Le Pen's ineligibility next year.

A harmony sealed at the foot of the stage by a shared walkabout. To better silence the rumors of a budding rivalry between the popular president of the party with the flame and his elder?

"Deep State" and Great Replacement

In any case, it was Marine Le Pen who was the center of attention in all the speeches. "A courageous fighter, (who) never betrays you (and) always follows the law of honor," Viktor Orban praised.

The Hungarian Prime Minister also embraced the conspiracy theory of the Great Replacement, comparing European migration policy to "an organized exchange of populations to replace the cultural base" of the Old Continent.

With equal vehemence, Matteo Salvini pointed to "an invasion of illegal immigrants, mainly Islamists," which he said was "financed and organized in the silence of Brussels." He even went so far as to "try to block" those who oppose it "with all possible means."

But "they will fail" because "victory belongs to the most tenacious" and "we are on the right side of history," added the Vice President of the Italian Council of Ministers in French.

Also in the language of Molière, the Czech Andrej Babis castigated a "deep state" mixing "European bureaucracy, traditional media (and) progressive activists", while the Flemish Tom Van Grieken harangued the crowd by asserting that "Marine Le Pen is shaking the system" and that "if France rises, Europe will follow".

"She will be president, they won't be able to stop her. France needs Marine to arrive and Europe needs France to return," insisted Spaniard Santiago Abascal.

On this occasion, the president of the Vox party and the Patriots' Alliance (85 out of 720 MEPs) announced that the Frenchwoman had been unanimously designated honorary president of the European movement.

"Building resistance"

Symbolic consecration, one year to the day after the RN's resounding victory in the European elections, with 31.37% of the vote, a record score which propelled Mr Bardella to the doors of Matignon following the dissolution.

But this momentum was shattered by a haphazard casting of candidates and a "republican front", limiting the RN contingent to 120 deputies, very far from the 289 needed to govern alone.

A setback that hasn't hindered the rise of the new champion of the far right, whose autobiography has achieved sales figures as high as his poll ratings. Propelled into the elite circle of "presidential hopefuls," but still with the status of Ms. Le Pen's "plan B," at the risk of instilling a slow poison in the entourages of the two leaders.

On the left, however, their opponents make no distinction. Speaking in front of several thousand people gathered in Montargis for a counter-demonstration, LFI MEP Manon Aubry saw in the nearby rally "the worst of the racist and xenophobic European far right" and urged them to "build resistance" in the face of political rivals who are "not welcome."

Side by side, the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, and that of the CFDT, Marylise Léon, also called for "not letting the far right have their way."