The political future of Marine Le Pen has less than the confidence of citizens – Liberation
What are we talking about? Of the political future of Marine Le Pen. He is suspended to the judgment that will be rendered this Monday In the case of parliamentary assistants of the FN, which has become RN, in the European Parliament. The prosecution requested a sentence of five years in prison (including two farm), a fine of 300,000 euros and an ineligibility of five years. With, and it is the most important, a request for « provisional execution ». If this request was retained, and even in the event of a callit would make it impossible to apply for the RN owner to the next presidential election. It would be a thunderclap.
But what should we, above all, speak? From the past of Marine Le Pen. Of these years 2004-2016 during which his party set up a practice of embezzlement of public funds, « With organized, optimized, and systemic character » and of which she was perfectly informed. A serious accusation, disputed by Marine Le Pen, that it is imperative to recall as the risk exists that the facts disappear behind the comments. It is crucial to return to the starting point: this accusation which questions the probity of a contender for the highest office of a Republic who needs to regain the confidence of citizens. It is this confidence that the legislator, that is to say the policies themselves, deemed sufficiently damaged ten years ago to vote on the law on which the decision of the judges will rely. Would this confidence be restored today? No. It is therefore curious to plead that to save democracy (which would be threatened if Marine Le Pen could not represent itself), it would be necessary to save from disgrace an elected official who helped to weaken her.
In addition, the judges, according to Marine Le Pen, would have « Right of life or death on our movement ». The elected north is doubly wrong. Her sentence first suggests that she would necessarily be the best candidate for the extreme right. Is it so certain, when it would be in her fourth attempt? Finally, it is to be feared that the story of the extreme right will not stop tomorrow, even in the event of ineligibility of Marine Le Pen. Others will jostle to carry the flame. What is also played out today is the future of a clan, a family, a name, not the future of a movement unfortunately anchored in the political landscape.
