While the municipal elections should have served to build the right‑wing coalition, they ultimately turned into a demonstration of the right’s fragmentation. And with the clear choice of division that risks leading us straight to defeat in 2027, Marseille and Nîmes became the privileged stage for the betrayal of the right‑wing union. In Marseille, the combined votes of the RN candidate and his allies, plus the candidate supported by LR, exceeded 49 % in the first round. With a dynamic of unity and mobilization against the left, we could have secured a decisive victory. Instead, LR’s decision to refuse an alliance with the RN in the second round led to the city falling into the hands of the socialists. In Nîmes, this refusal was even more scandalous: in the first round, the combined votes of the RN and LR candidates reached 65 %, so victory was assured; yet LR refused the RN candidate’s offer of cooperation and handed the city over to the communists despite a final combined right‑wing score of 59 %. But the strategic heart of this suicidal operation was Paris, which became the laboratory for a pseudo‑right‑wing union that is anti‑RN. In September 2025, all the conditions seemed finally to be in place for the national right, with a unified candidacy, to achieve a historic score in the capital that surpassed LFI and Bournazel, and to impose for the first time an unprecedented second round between socialists, Macronists, and patriots. Sarah Knafo’s score ultimately turned out to be 10.4 %, and even when combined with Thierry Mariani’s, the result remains well below the poll forecasts as well as the scores achieved by the lists that Jordan Bardella and I led in the 2024 European elections. Worse, the national camp is ultimately completely out of the game. Zero elected officials in Paris, zero possible influence on the city council. And, to top it all, the left’s victory! How did we get here? Because Sarah Knafo created the conditions for a trap that we all risk paying heavily for: the narrative of a “right‑wing union” that, in reality, is not one. Before proceeding, I want to remind everyone that no one believes in and supports the right‑wing coalition project more than I do. Since 2015 until today, I have made it the leitmotif of my action. For a long time, I was isolated on this subject before it has now become more consensual in people’s minds. I have even often repeated that this coalition should be as broad as possible and, why not, even include people currently at Horizons such as Christelle Morançais. But with a non‑negotiable condition: that it be based on our struggles, not as subordinates to the center’s program. The goal must be to pull the center toward the right, not the other way around! I want to remind one thing that has evidently been forgotten during this campaign: without the national right, it is not a right‑wing union, it is a center union, in short an alliance to keep in power those who have been in power until today. Thus, the right‑wing union cannot in any way consist in the Dati‑Knafo operation we witnessed in Paris: capturing the votes of patriotic voters, mainly those of the RN, only to then offer them without reciprocity, nor a counterpart on the project, to the Macronist center, thereby free to continue its small arrangements with the left. The Paris maneuver has now created a precedent with heavy consequences, far exceeding the scope of municipal elections and potentially appearing as the dream lifebuoy for neo‑Macronists in 2027.