{"id":4000,"date":"2026-03-19T23:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/frances-far-right-faces-internal-strain-as-bardella-shifts-rn-to-softer-right\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:14:02","slug":"frances-far-right-faces-internal-strain-as-bardella-shifts-rn-to-softer-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/frances-far-right-faces-internal-strain-as-bardella-shifts-rn-to-softer-right\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s far right faces internal strain as Bardella shifts RN to softer right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">Marine Le Pen suddenly let go of the helm. &#8220;We&#8217;re leaning to the right because everyone is on the same side,&#8221; she said. Was the Rassemblement National (RN) leading figure on the verge of abandoning her perpetual &#8220;neither left nor right&#8221; stance? On Wednesday, March 18, these words were not political. She was simply afraid of losing her balance on a pleasure boat moored in the Courcelles-l\u00e8s-Lens basin, one of three stops on her whirlwind tour of her home district in northern France to support three RN candidates projected to win in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/les-decodeurs\/article\/2026\/03\/16\/2026-french-municipal-elections-results-in-key-cities_6751486_8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second round of local elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/politics\/article\/2026\/03\/19\/france-s-far-right-faces-internal-strain-as-bardella-shifts-rn-to-softer-right_6751622_5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Le Pen suddenly let go of the helm. &#8220;We&#8217;re leaning to the right because everyone is on the same side,&#8221; she said. Was the Rassemblement National (RN) leading figure on the verge of abandoning her perpetual &#8220;neither left nor right&#8221; stance? On Wednesday, March 18, these words were not political. She was simply afraid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,67],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}