“A live crash”: “No record to be an RN candidate”: this slip of the tongue from Jordan Bardella provokes a reaction

“Brutus”, “Freud”… Jordan Bardella’s political opponents did not fail on Tuesday to ironically comment on the exit of the president of the RN, who stressed that a “clean record” should be the “rule” for to stand for election, while Marine Le Pen is under threat of court conviction.

“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,” said Jordan Bardella in the middle of a long interview given Monday evening to the BFMTV channel.

And to add that this position has “always been” that of the RN, regularly singled out in the press for having nominated candidates who have made comments of a racist or xenophobic nature, or who have been condemned in the past.

And “if Marine Le Pen is convicted?”, one of the channel’s journalists then asked again, in reference to the trial of the assistants of RN MEPs, where the prosecutors requested a sentence of ineligibility against her. of provisional execution – that is to say that it applies immediately even in the event of an appeal – which could hinder Marine Le Pen’s ambitions for the presidential election.

Seeming taken aback, Jordan Bardella, often presented as a putative successor in the event that Marine Le Pen was unable to run for office, responded that there would be an “appeal” in the event of a court conviction, and “that Marine Le Pen is totally innocent. The rule “applies to everyone, but Marine Le Pen is innocent,” he repeated.

“A little creepy”

“We knew Bardella was in a hurry. This is blatant speeding,” the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, did not fail to joke about X.

Paul Vannier, executive and deputy of the La France insoumise movement, nicknamed Jordan Bardella a “good brutus”.

“It’s the donkey’s kick or Brutus who kills the mother. We have to go look for Freud in his grave so that he can explain to us,” says a deputy from the government camp with a smile. Before criticizing a “slightly creepy” passage for a candidate at Matignon. “You go on BFMTV to talk about that, you have elements of language normally, you know that you are going to be questioned about that.”

Other left-wing opponents even speak of a “live crash”.