Marine Le Pen's cautious reserve towards the magistrates will not have withstood the shock of the requisitions against her, in the affair of the European parliamentary assistants of the National Front: Wednesday November 13 in the evening, she denounced a desire alleged by the public prosecutor to exclude him from political life, echoing the refrain of most elected officials threatened with a sentence of ineligibility.
The heaviness of the requisitions – five years in prison, three of which are suspended, five years of ineligibility with provisional execution – triggered a surge of solidarity from the far right behind its champion, including the most radical who despise her, as well as from former Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
The National Rally (RN) victimization enterprise has also been launched on social networks. Each elected official was asked to find in their photo album a photo featuring them with Marine Le Pen, accompanied by a kind word for the president of the group in the National Assembly and this hashtag: # ISupportMarine. It quickly rose to the top of the most shared slogans on the social network X.
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The RN returns to its fundamentals
“There is a desire on the part of the prosecution to deprive me, and to deprive the French, of voting for whoever they wish. This is the objective”assured the defendant, her eyes red, as she left the courtroom, thus setting the tone. Marine Le Pen did not wish to immediately denounce a “political trial” nor justice to orders, and instructions had been given to his flock not to indulge in this facility. But very quickly, after the first days of the hearing, she let her first doubts about the neutrality of the president of the court filter through, which was a way of signaling halali.
Even before the decision, expected in 2025, the RN therefore returns to its fundamentals: the denunciation of politicized justice and a plot aimed at eliminating its representatives. “The prosecution is not in justice: it is in relentlessness and revenge against Marine Le Pen”denounced Jordan Bardella, speaking of“attack on democracy”.
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This Wednesday evening, the contrast could not be more striking between the three-time candidate for the presidential election, accountable for her actions as former president of the party, and her designated successor: while Marine Le Pen listened to the requisitions, dedicated to her copies of his book in Brussels, in a location made available by Viktor Orban's Hungary.
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