The legal guerrilla warfare between the National Rally (RN) and the European Parliament does not know any truce. As learned The worldJordan Bardella and the European deputy Alexandre Varaut formulated, in May, an appeal against the European Parliament before the European Union court (EU) to obtain the hires of collaborators as local parliamentary assistants. It is respectively the director of cabinet of the president of the RN, François Paradol, and the historic secretary of Mr. Varaut in his law firm.
The European administration had refused, in November 2024, to pay these two salaries, believing that it would be impossible for him to verify whether the two employees really worked to help the two elected officials in their European deputy. The contracts of local parliamentary assistants, which are based in France, constituted most of the procedure which cost the ineligibility to Marine Le Pen.
This recourse is therefore a new episode in conflicting relations between the European body and the far -right party. On March 31, the party, Marine Le Pen and 23 other elected officials and executives were condemned by French justice for having had the European Parliament remunerated, as parliamentary assistants, activists who actually worked for the party – half of the convicts, including Mme Le Pen, appealed. Tuesday, July 8, the European prosecution announced the opening of another survey concerning the actions of the RN delegation and its allies in Brussels, who would have “Understanded” Its operating budget for the benefit of friendly service providers or associations in a clientelist approach.
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