Marine Le Pen no longer even intends to compete with her runner-up in the applause game. “Yes, this fall is the time [Jordan] Bardela. But I feel like it’s still Bardella’s time.”smiled the leader of the deputies of the National Rally (RN), on Tuesday, November 12, in a luxurious hall in Paris, where the president of the RN organized the presentation party of his book. Curious contrast for the member from Pas-de-Calais. On the eve of the accusation by the Prosecutor’s Office in the process that threatens her with her ineligibility, she attended the celebration of her foal as a spectator, in the midst of a good number of RN deputies and numerous officials of the Canal+ Group, invited as family – property , as does Fayard, the editor of the work, by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.
Marine Le Pen may repeat that Jordan Bardella’s popularity would serve her fourth presidential ambition, but current events are testing her hierarchy more than ever. Between her and him, I promise, there will be no rivalry. Even less betrayal. “We are not like the others”Jordan Bardella repeats everywhere. As proof of mutual loyalty, the two far-right leaders sealed their fates on paper as of September 2023: Marine Le Pen will aspire to the Elysée in 2027 and Jordan Bardella Matignon. An immutable purpose? The question has been asked too many times for one of them to find the answer. Marine Le Pen clears up doubts with a tireless pirouette: “You never know, I could always get hit by a truck. »
Jordan Bardella is less ironic now. To Pascal Praud, who asked him on Tuesday morning on CNews: “Who is the right person?” to make your triumph “camp”The MEP responded that “It is the circumstances that determine it”. More necessarily Marine Le Pen, therefore. Jordan Bardella then took care to deny the journalist who, on two occasions, informed him that, “For some, the name “Le Pen” prohibits the Elysée”.
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It would take less to suspect that the apprentice author is aiming higher and faster than his older sister’s would-be prime minister. She herself no longer feels publicly offended by an outing that previously would have merited a reprimand. “He is right. Today I am the natural candidate for my side, but a presidential path requires several elements, including the desire and ability to be one. And I know how political life can take away your banana skin.”develops Marine Le Pen. The president of the RN group in the National Assembly openly considers the possibility of a possible conviction in the case of European parliamentary assistants. “I, who do not believe in justice, told her that they would condemn her”confirms Philippe Olivier, his closest advisor, who is there ” prepared “. And he does not reject any hypothesis, including the premature candidacy of Jordan Bardella.
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