Dissolution, ineligibility: Marine Le Pen, between blows and chin strikes

Marine Le Pen almost swallowed her e-cigarette. Like the rest of the French political class, she hadn't seen François Bayrou's hara-kiri coming on August 25. She discovered his desire to submit to a vote of confidence in front of the television, from her family stronghold of La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan), where she spent most of her vacation. The Prime Minister, with whom she had a relationship tinged with respect, did not seek to negotiate the abstention of the extreme right in advance, nor did he follow up on the letter she sent at the end of July, setting out her own ideas for reducing the deficit.

A few phone calls to her Macronist contacts, to understand the motives of this Béarnese variant of seppuku, and Marine Le Pen draws her gun: neither confidence, nor abstention, the National Rally (RN) will "obviously vote against" and sees only one way out of the current crisis: dissolution. This isn't enough to disrupt her personal agenda: the Le Pen heiress has gotten into the habit of following the August political season from afar and organizing her party's in mid-September. As the only national political leader absent from the screens, Marine Le Pen leaves Jordan Bardella to embody the far right alone after this political thunderbolt.

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