Le National Rally (RN) stands united. One day after the public prosecutor’s request in the Front National MEP assistants affair – which on Wednesday called for five years’ ineligibility with provisional execution against Marine Le Pen All the party’s executives, but above all its flame-haired president, are fighting back. While his predecessor could be barred from standing for re-election in 2027 if judges follow the prosecution’s demands, the young leader, guest on CNews and Europe 1 on Thursday evening, admitted that his “movement is down on one knee”. “We cannot accept that a judge, because he has decided to have Marine Le Pen on the nose, should require the ineligibility of a potential presidential candidate.”he snapped. All “believing in probity and total honesty”. of her mentor.

And to hammer home: “A prosecutor cannot decide even before all possibilities of appeal have been exhausted how a country’s democracy works.” In the scenario where this impediment is confirmed in a few months’ time, could the 29-year-old MEP wear his camp’s colors in two and a half years’ time? If he says he is “preparing to exercise power”. – as in the early legislative elections of June 2024 -, Jordan Bardella “doesn’t intend to make his money in this period”. And assures “the same positions Marine Le Pen is preparing for.”

“A revenge”

The RN boss may not wish “comment” this hypothesis, he considers that it is “shocking to many French people, and to politicians who are not members of our political family”.highlighting the surprise statement by Gérald Darmanin who found “shocking” the possibility that Marine Le Pen might not be on the starting line for the Elysée. But also the testimonies of French people who would have “the feeling that this is not justice but revenge”. against the woman who has already stood before them three times. With the Pas-de-Calais MP progressing from presidential election to presidential election since 2012, Jordan Bardella believes that “justice seeks to triumph where the political class has failed”..

Which suggests that politicians should be above the law? “There is the substance of the case and a disproportion in the requisitions that are made by a biased prosecutor”said Jordan Bardella. He was keen to point out that he “there has been no personal enrichment, no fictitious employment in this affair.” Then adding: “We’re talking about an administrative disagreement over the role and mission carried out by the parliamentary assistants. Marine Le Pen did not take any money from the fund”..