Several petitions of support are already circulating online, including one on the RN website

The day after the requisitions of the Paris prosecutor's office in the so-called affair of the parliamentary assistants of the National Rally (RN), online petitions in support of its president Marine Le Pen are flourishing on the web. In particular that of the RN “to defend democracy”. Support then the prosecution requested against Marine Le Pen, accused of having embezzled funds from the European Parliament for the benefit of her party, five years in prison including three suspended, 300,000 euros fine and five years of ineligibility with execution provisional.

A decision which could prevent Marine Le Pen, finalist in the last two presidential elections, from running in the 2027 presidential election.

A “severity” of the sentence and an ineligibility with provisional execution, understood with immediate application even in the event of appeal, judged by some as an obstacle to democracy. Also, the RN did not hesitate to launch this Thursday on its site a petition called “Defend democracy, support Marine!” “. She denounces requisitions which “are a clear interference in the organization of parliamentary life, in defiance of the separation of powers”, or even “an attempt to eliminate the voice of the true opposition” and to “circumvent the process democratic”.