The National Front did not allow the only person who wanted to compete with Le Pen to participate in the elections

On Monday, October 23, the National Front announced that the nomination of candidates for the presidency of the party has now been completed. The decision was made at a meeting of the Politburo, which took place at the party headquarters in Nanterre (a suburb of Paris).

Thus, the party decided not to take into account the request of the only one who wanted to compete with Marine Le Pen: on Friday, October 20, Eric Dilli, head of the Lille party cell, announced his intention to compete for the presidency of the National Front.

Dilli only asked for a delay in the deadline for submitting signatures for the nomination (to become a candidate, one must gain the support of 20 regional party secretaries), but the party refused him this.

Thus, 49-year-old Marine Le Pen will become the only candidate for the presidency of the National Front.

The re-election of Marine Le Pen is to take place during the party congress scheduled in Lille on March 10 and 11, 2018.

In recent months, the party has been experiencing a serious crisis, provoked, among other things, by Le Pen's unsuccessful performance in the presidential elections in April-May this year.

A month ago, its vice-president Florian Fillippo, who was called the "right hand" of Marine Le Pen, left the party. The same "hand" was considered the culprit of his "quarrel with his daughter" and the "patriarch" of the ultra-right party Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was its president until January 2011, until he gave way to Marine Le Pen.