“The number one rule” to be a candidate for the National Rally is “not to have a legal conviction”, assures Jordan Bardella

Who was Jordan Bardella thinking? The president of the National Rally assured, on BFMTV Monday evening, that “not have any convictions on your criminal record” East “rule number one” et “the one we have always followed” to be a candidate for the National Rally. He was responding to a question about nationalist candidates for deputy. “There are people who by deception conceal a past which has not been shown on the criminal record” because when the “facts date back thirty years, some do not appear on the record”.

“What if Marine Le Pen is convicted?”retorts a journalist. The public prosecutor requested, Wednesday evening, a sentence of five years in prison and five years of ineligibility against Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally group in the Assembly. “If at the beginning of the year the judges decide to convict, whatever the conviction, there will be an appeal,” replied the president of the National Rally.

“The call will not confirm [la condamnation, NDLR] because Marine Le Pen is totally innocent”continued Jordan Bardella. After having assured that “obviously the rule applies to everyone”the latter iterated that “Marine Le Pen is innocent”.