Jordan Bardella affirms that “not having a conviction on his criminal record” is necessary to be a candidate for the RN

Invited on BFMTV, the president of the National Rally added that Marine Le Pen would have “no conviction” in the trial of the party’s parliamentary assistants.

Did he have the case of the leader of the RN deputies in mind when he stated this rule? Guest on the BFMTV set, Monday November 18, Jordan Bardella maintained that “not have any convictions on your criminal record” was there “rule number one” to be a candidate for the National Rally. The party president was questioned about the RN candidates for the legislative elections whose records were not clean. “This is always the policy we have followed” more “there are people who by deception conceal a past which has not been shown on the criminal record”, he argued. Not having a conviction on your record is therefore necessary to “to be a parliamentarian”he continued.

If Marine Le Pen is sentenced to a sentence of ineligibility in the trial of FN parliamentary assistants, will this rule prevent him from running in the presidential election? “If, with ifs, there is a call…”replied Jordan Bardella, evoking a possible appeal if the court followed the requisitions of the prosecution, which notably requested five years of ineligibility with provisional execution against the former boss of the party. “If at the beginning of the year, the judges decide to sentence her, there will be an appeal, the appeal makes you whiter than white”he explained, before predicting that “call will not confirm” the possible conviction of Marine Le Pen since she is “totally innocent”.

Qualifying as “administrative disagreement” the system of“fictitious jobs” to the detriment of the European Parliament and for the benefit of the party portrayed by the accusation, Jordan Bardella recalled that Marine Le Pen had not “not personally enriched” and that ineligibility with provisional execution “neither justified[ait] not”. This provisional execution requested by the prosecution would make the sentence immediately applicable, despite appeals.

To regain control, the hypothesis of censoring the Barnier government this winter has gone from fanciful to probable. “The government is taking the path”confirmed Monday evening Jordan Bardella.