“The sentence is a political decision.” With these words the silence broke Marine Le Pen After being declared on Monday guilty for embezzlement of public funds in the case of false European parliamentary assistants. A verdict that sentences the four years in prison and which at the moment would prevent him from presenting himself to the next presidential elections.
The national regrouping leader insists that she is innocent and has loaded hard against the judges of France in her first statements during a televised interview in TF1: “I am going to make an appeal Because I’m innocent. (…) I think the judges have been wrong, and I think we have been judged partially, ”he insisted.
During his speech, Le Pen did not stop questioning the Judiciary, but especially the judge in charge of issuing the sentence: “The judges have applied practices that were believed to be reserved for authoritarian regimes (…) Today is a horrible day for our democracy and for our country, where millions of French will be private, by a judge of first instance, without any possibility of any appeal, of the candidate that today is considered favorite for the presidential elections.”
The national regrouping leader remarked several times that her conviction It does not mean “in any way” its withdrawal of political lifeand categorically denied the possibility of requesting the President Emmanuel Macron, The pardon: “I trust the ability of an appeal court to analyze this case neutrally and conclude that, in reality, we have nothing to reproach ourselves.”
Even so, the greatest of the PEN admitted that the deadlines to reverse the judicial decision before the presidential elections of 2027 are very tight. However, for Marine this is not synonymous with claudicar, because “there are still millions of French who believe in it.”
The sentence considers it guilty of a crime of embezzlement of public funds, and points it as the maximum responsible for a system for which its party diverted more than four million euros of the European Parliament to pay expenses of the group in France.
Jordan Bardella, the successor of Le Pen
Now all eyes are put in your dolphin, Jordan Bardella, who has been preparing in the shadow of a mentor for years.
“Jordan Bardella is a great asset for movement and I have been saying it for a long time,” Le Pen insisted, although he was reluctant about the question of occupying the position of Prime Minister, in case Jordan Bardella was postulated as a candidate for the presidential elections and won them: “I am not on that issue. I am not ready to submit to a denial of democracy so easily. This, ”he insisted.
On the other hand, Bardella labeled the sentence of “democratic scandal”, and launched a call to the “popular and peaceful” mobilization For him next April 5.
