Marine Le Pen is presumed innocent. His lawyers, those of the National Group (RN) and the other twenty-four elected officials, executives or small businessmen tried together with him for misappropriation of public funds in the case of the European parliamentary assistants, still have six days of arguments left. The sentence will not be handed down until 2025. But it was with a somber look, a closed face and a vengeful tone that the three-time presidential candidate appeared on the 8pm television news on TF1, on Friday, November 15.
Two days earlier, the prosecution’s searches, proportional to the suspected violations of integrity, reminded the Pas-de-Calais deputy of the threat that weighed on her political future: five years of disqualification had been demanded by the prosecutor, in addition to five years in prison (two of which are fixed, convertible into an electronic bracelet) and a fine of 30,000 euros.
A perspective that has since justified a protest by his side against justice, described as ” policy “accused of wanting to hinder the rise of Marine Le Pen. “I come to tell the French today that the idea that (…) “Depriving them of their choice is a very violent attack on democracy.”Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter warned with a clenched jaw.
Manage the risk that she won’t be able to show up.
The recognition of the RN had, therefore, a limit: the personal interests of its leader. After years of consolidating herself as a bulwark of the institutions, the elected official has definitively returned to the populist and anti-system rhetoric that her party had silenced, considered incompatible with access to power. The priority at this time is not to build the stature of a candidate for the next presidential election, but to manage the risk that she will not be able to run. “The objective [des magistrats] is attacking a political opponentMarine Le Pen repeated. And beyond me, it is the French who, in reality, have no hope. »
The president of the RN group in the National Assembly denies it “put pressure” about his judges, but warns that a sentence severe enough to thwart his career plans would cause a “democratic dysfunction”. Especially if, as the prosecution requested, she was not eligible for provisional execution, immediately depriving her of the right to run in the elections. “It is my political death that is demanded”lamented whoever appears in “natural candidate” of his side in the 2027 presidential elections.
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