ANALYSE – “Heads high, hands clean,” proclaimed the National Front in 1993, meaning that the nationalist party was different from the others. Echoing this rhetoric, Monday evening, on BFMTV, Jordan Bardella came up against the hypothesis of a condemnation of Marine Le Pen.
Was this intentional? A hiccup? This Monday evening, interviewed at length on the BFMTV news channel, Jordan Bardella himself stopped the National Rally (RN) machine. Journalists talk about the many “bad apples” of the nationalist party during the last legislative elections, and these candidates who had already been condemned by the courts. The president of the RN then replied, solemnly: « Not having a conviction on your criminal record is for me a number one rule when you want to be a parliamentarian of the Republic. » Neither one nor two, and unsurprisingly, the following question arises, in reference to the trial of the RN's European parliamentary assistants, in which Marine Le Pen is being prosecuted, in particular, for embezzlement: « And if Marine Le Pen is condemned ? Even if there is no ineligibility, even if there is no provisional execution ? Marine Le Pen can't…
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