The national rally wants to be ready. Stacked in its affairs of embezzlement of public funds, the far -right party could be deprived of its best candidate for the 2027 presidential election. Sentenced to an ineligibility sentence of five years, Marine Le Pen is suspended at a appeal trial which should be held before the end of Emmanuel Macron’s mandate. But in the event that her sentence is confirmed, the daughter of the founder of the FN could call on Jordan Bardella. This is in any case what Marine Le Pen said, in an interview published this Wednesday in Current values.
“I joined the hypothesis that I cannot present myself. Jordan joined the possibility that he had to take up the torch. I myself asked him to think and prepare for this possibility, ”assures the deputy for Pas-de-Calais. At the end of March, she received an ineligibility sentence of five years with immediate effect and four years’ imprisonment, two of which are closed. Justice found him guilty of having orchestrated “a system” allowing his party to pay RN employees with the money from the European Parliament between 2004 and 2016. Amount of fraud: 4.4 million euros.
A second trial must be held in the coming months before the Paris Court of Appeal, which will make its decision “in the summer of 2026”. “Until then, I continue to fight. Of course the situation is not ideal. But what do you suggest to me? That I commit suicide before being murdered? “Asks Marine Le Pen in the magazine near the far right.
Some sparks in recent months
The triple unhappy presidential candidate had previously returned a bardella candidacy to the Elysée in 2027 to a purely theoretical possibility, bordering on incongruity. Marine Le Pen even betrayed his annoyance last month, saying that he was “not sure that Jordan, for the time being, knew very well the problems of New Caledonia”, during a trip to Noumea. From Paris, the interested party had wanted to minimize in stride, seeing a reflection according to him “out of his context” … while ensuring “very well” know, too, the overseas file.
