After the very consequential rallies in support of Marine Le Pen after her four-year conviction and 5-year ban for running for elected office, her party, the Right-Wing Rassemblement Nationale (National Rally), while weakened by the establishment’s political dirty tricks, is also emboldened and on the offensive.
‘We are winning’, Marine Le Pen told supporters yesterday (6) in Paris, saying she was the victim of a ‘witch hunt’.
Two of National Rally’s top players, President Jordan Bardella and party Vice President Sébastien Chenu, went out of their way in interviews to make it clear that they are planning on ousting Macron-backed Prime Minister François Bayrou.
This would come a mere four months after the NR and the French left took down Bayrou’s predecessor, Michel Barnier.
Jordan Bardella told RTL (translated from the French) that he believes that ‘millions of French people were outraged that a court decision’.
“’The meaning of this call for mobilization’, he continues, ‘was a fierce desire to defend democracy, to defend the rule of law and also to defend an independent, honest justice system in the face of those who wish to politicize or render, I would say, a partisan component to judicial decisions’.
‘The legal fight is part of the political fight, everything will be done to prevent us from coming to power’, he said, denouncing ‘a court decision contested by our opponents as well as by legal specialists’.
‘We dispute the reproaches of the European Parliament, there was no fictitious employment or personal enrichment’, said the RN president. ‘We dispute the facts and we will prove our judgment on appeal. We will accept the court decisions whatever they are, but that does not mean acknowledging that we are guilty’.”
Former Prime Minister, Macron-backed Gabriel Attal tried to bash Le Pen.
Huffington Post reported (translated from the French):
“’You steal, you pay’, said the [Attal] Macronist leader. […] Jordan Bardella did not appreciate the exit of Gabriel Attal. […] ‘Obviously, Mr. Attal is ready to do anything to exist, including to say anything’.”
RN’s vice-president Sébastien Chenu rebutted the ‘very limited’ remarks by the ousted former PM, who would have ‘no lessons to give’. ‘You ruin, you get out’, he said on BFMTV, mocking Attal’s formula.
Marine Le Pen is appealing her conviction, so she must be presumed innocent pending her appeal trial, he insisted.
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