At the national rally, Marine le Pen act “the possibility” of a Bardella candidacy in 2027 – Liberation

After the claw, the candy. In addition, A month after declared himself. Moreover, during a trip to New Caledonia, “Presidential candidate”and having doubted that Jordan Bardella “Know the problems very well” of the archipelago, Marine Le Pen now plans “The possibility” that her dolphin, and not her, be a candidate for the Elysée in 2027. Consequently, “I joined the hypothesis that I cannot present myself. For example, Jordan [Bardella] Integrated the possibility that he should take up the torch. Furthermore, I myself asked him to think. For example, prepare »exhibits the deputy for the national rally in an interview published this Wednesday, June 25 by the weekly Current values.

This “hypothesis” is imposed on the RN champion since her conviction. Furthermore, in April, in the party’s fictitious assistant case: among the sorrows then fixed, national rally, marine le pen an ineligibility of five years immediately enforceable. The appeal trial. which must intervene by the summer of 2026, could raise this sentence, but there is no guarantee that the outcome is more favorable for Marine Le Pen. Well forced to consider her replacement. she had already mentioned it, without hiding their little pleasure that this scenario inspires him: “If I passed tomorrow under a truck, well, [Bardella] would obviously be the person who would be intended to replace me ”, she said in April. The remarks made from Current values give a realistic turn to this situation.

More “Until then, I continue to fight. Of course the situation is not ideal. But what do you suggest to me any other ? That I commit suicide before being murdered ?» Questions the perhaps-past-candidate, which contributed to the presidential elections of 2012, 2017 and 2022, accessing in the national rally, marine le pen second round in the last two.

For his part. between the release of an autobiography, the assertion of a more economically liberal personal line, its popularity not denied among the sympathizers RN and beyond, and his own declarations on a possible candidacy, Jordan Bardella gave numerous clues of his ambitions. Without daring. at this stage, upsetting his political godmother too frankly-a fatal experience with several numbers 2 of the ex-national-national in the history of the party. During a recent visit to the duo at the Bourget Aeronautical Fair. the almost three-year-old obediently followed the step of his boss, which held the first plan. However, he has-clumsiness or croche-pants? – recently envisaged the outfit in the coming months of an early presidential election … from which Le Pen would be excluded in fact. The ex-president of the RN would also have to lose in the event of national rally, marine le pen anticipated legislative elections. during which she could not defend her seat as a deputy in Pas-de-Calais.

In addition to the penalty of ineligibility. the Paris Criminal Court condemned Marine Le Pen to four years’ imprisonment, two of which are close, found guilty of having set up a “system” of embezzlement of public funds to pay party employees with the money from the European Parliament between 2004 and 2016, for an amount of 4.4 million euros.