Marine Le Pen on Sunday, June 30, said she was elected in the first round of snap legislative elections in the 11th constituency of the northern Pas-de-Calais department. Results were not immediately available.
Elected in this constituency since 2017, Le Pen plans to retain her position as president of the RN group in the Assemblée Nationale for the next legislature. And this even in the event of an absolute majority for the RN and Jordan Bardella's likely accession to the position of prime minister after the second round. "You know about the separation of powers? I most certainly will not be under his authority, that's in the way it's structured. But the fact that the group's president and the prime minister are extremely close politically would be rather good news," she insisted to Le Monde before the first round.
Translation of an original article published in French on lemonde.fr; the publisher may only be liable for the French version.