There is “zero ambiguity”, she assured. The National Rally (RN) will vote, with the left, on a motion of censure against the Barnier government “if the purchasing power of the French is cut” by the budget, Marine Le Pen declared on RTL on Wednesday.
While the use of 49.3 by the government to try to have its budget adopted is not excluded, due to lack of a majority, “the problem is not that of 49.3, it is what is there in the budget,” said the leader of the RN deputies. “Will Mr. Barnier respect the commitment he made to ensure that opposition groups can recognize elements in this budget that seem essential to them,” said the Pas-de MP -Calais.
On the RN side, these requests were given “from the start”, she insisted, such as “not increasing taxes on individuals, on entrepreneurs, not making retirees pay, making structural savings on state operating expenditure. “However, we have not been heard, we have not even been listened to,” she lambasted, recalling that she will be received, with all the other presidents of the opposition parliamentary groups in Matignon the next week.
“We are well aware that it cannot take everything but, what is certain is that we will not accept that the purchasing power of the French is further reduced, it is a red line. And if this red line is indeed crossed, we will vote for censorship,” she reaffirmed, “without any difficulty.” The vote on this motion of censure should take place in the second half of December. If the RN and the left vote for it jointly, then the government will be overthrown.
“A matter of nothing at all”
Marine Le Pen was also questioned about the comments of Jordan Bardella, who declared Monday evening that it was necessary to have a clean criminal record to be elected RN, while a conviction hovers over his head in the The affair of the parliamentary assistants of the European Parliament, causing a stir within the party. “We’re making a case of nothing at all,” she said on RTL, assuring that she didn’t take it personally.
“The National Rally, for years, asks its candidates for bulletin number three of the criminal record, reserved for the most serious sentences,” explained the Pas-de-Calais MP. Not having a registration on this bulletin, “this is a requirement that has existed at the RN for a very long time, and which will be valid for everyone whatever happens obviously,” she insisted. “Jordan only reminded that, it’s completely legitimate,” she added, dismissing the idea of a “stab in the back”.
Placing herself in the perspective that “the acquittal will restore my innocence in the eyes of all”, she assured that she had not discussed with the president of the RN her possible inability to run for the 2027 presidential election. “We do not put yourself in this hypothesis, you know the confidence I have in Jordan, but in this case (…) if I were prevented, it is the political movement which would be led to choose its candidate , this is democratic functioning internal part of our movement,” she said.
“We have a relationship of trust with Jordan, I gave him his chance in due time by taking all the risks because he was very young during the last European elections, he was 23,” he said. she developed. “He never disappointed me.”
