I think this is too pessimistic.

Yes, the governmental elites and their corporate cronies would like to always have "no lose" elections where they control all viable candidates.

I am skeptical that they achieve this goal. I am also skeptical that they actually control everyone they think they control. Le Pen (and Macron and Scholz etc) have individual free will. It's possible that they may be fully on-board with the globalist/Statist plans (or pretend to be) and react to emerging events in unexpected ways. It's also possible that State officials may say or do things which lead to the populace developing unexpected opinions and attitudes, as in the downfall of Louis 16.

I suspect part of the sense of global electoral fakery comes from the US State Department pulling strings to manage elections and supervise "national" government. US State officials develop connections throughout the local bureaucracy and upper classes. This allows State to influence who is considered a viable candidate as well as exert tremendous pressure once a new administration comes in. But all those people still enjoy free will, and influence is not true control.