When the week began, David Rachline was mayor of the second-largest city governed by the Rassemblement National (RN), vice president of the party, and a close friend of its leader, Jordan Bardella. But on Tuesday, December 2, his 38 th birthday, the mayor of Fréjus, southern France, became an ordinary member of the far-right movement, resigning from his positions as vice president and member of the RN's executive board, just hours after being disowned by Marine Le Pen on television.