Lydia Schenardi, departmental secretary of the FN 06, is definitively closing the chapter on the dissidence of the council members in the Nice City Council and is turning her attention to the senatorial elections in the coming September.
“The municipal elections in March allowed us to settle in many municipalities, we have about sixty elected representatives. Most of them are not registrants or long-time activists but come from civil society. The European elections confirmed the FN as the leading party in France. We continue our progress and strengthen our organization to help the elected officials in their tasks and implement the national directives locally,” she tells us during a press briefing preceding a meeting of the party executives.
The Nice case is definitively set aside: “An episode, certainly unforeseen and tedious, but nothing more,” Lydia Schenardi does not fear any repercussions on the electorate at all.
The departmental secretary is not wielding a flamethrower: “I am not here to exacerbate the situation and I am only applying the national directives. The dissidents are not part of the National Front, except for one person, so there is no need to sanction them.”
The next electoral step is therefore the senatorial elections: She herself will head the list, with Jean-Pierre Castiglia, former mayor of Malaussène and representing the “often neglected” hinterland, as number 2. A ticket that the National Nominations Commission is expected to confirm during its meeting on July 9th.
What is the forecast? Achieving the quorum to have an elected official is a high-risk prediction. There remains the conviction of being able to advance in terms of votes, and perhaps well beyond the simple addition of elected representatives and major electors.
Has the FN virus turned into a phase of contagion???
