The national rally did not seem prepared for this thunderclap. Marine Le Pen castigated, Monday, March 31, a “political decision” and a “fatal day for our democracy”, after her conviction to immediate ineligibility for five years. On the set of TF1, the triple unhappy presidential candidate reaffirmed her ambitions for the 2027 election by requesting a quick appeal hearing. Abroad, the president of the RN group in the National Assembly can count on the support of billionaire Elon Musk, the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro or the President Donald Trump.
Info to remember
⇒ Donald Trump compares Le Pen’s conviction to his own legal affairs
⇒ “I’m a marine!” : the extreme European right, Elon Musk and Jair Bolsonaro shout in injustice
⇒ The Socialist Party launches a petition to support justice
07:20
RN ready to launch the counter-offensive
At J+1 After the shocking judgment against Marine Le Pen, the RN organizes the political and media counter-offensive on Tuesday. Jordan Bardella, Louis Aliot, Sébastien Chenu, Marion Maréchal … Pintes du Party and supporters of the File chef will parade in number on the media sets in the morning. The president of the RN has already warned on X that he would go to CNews/Europe 1 denounce a “democratic scandal”. And the faithful of the boss will endeavor not to feed the hypothesis of a renunciation of the candidate. Himself a dolphin on paper, Jordan Bardella did not fail to accompany his message with a photo showing him hugging Marine Le Pen. “We will be everywhere in the field in the coming weeks,” said Jordan Bardella in a letter to the Sympathizers of the RN. Calling for “popular and peaceful mobilization”, the party also launched a support petition on Monday, with the watchword “save democracy, let’s support marine”.
07:00
“I’m a navy!” : the extreme European right, Elon Musk and Jair Bolsonaro shout in injustice
Hungary in mind, many voices pursued on Monday in the European extreme right and beyond to denounce the fate of Marine Le Pen, condemned by French justice to five years of ineligibility for embezzlement of public funds. Billionaire Elon Musk, close adviser to US President Donald Trump, joined criticism by criticizing an “judicial system” and warned of “a return of stick”.
The former Brazilian far-right president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), himself sentenced to an ineligibility sentence in Brazil, denounced a “persecution” of Marine Le Pen. “I hope and I encourage Marine Le Pen to overcome this persecution and to appear at the next presidential election” in 2027, he wrote on his account X.
06:45
Donald Trump compares Marine Le Pen’s conviction to his own legal affairs
Donald Trump compared Marine Le Pen’s condemnation on Monday to his own judicial affairs in the United States, believing that the ineligibility for five years of the leader of the national rally was “a very important affair”. “It makes us think of our country, it looks a lot like our country,” said Donald Trump, himself condemned last year in the case of payments hidden to an X films actress.
06:30
The Socialist Party launches a petition to support justice
The Socialist Party announced on Monday evening that it launched “a petition to support the independence of justice”, after “threats” with regard to the magistrates who rendered the judgment in the case of European parliamentary assistants and condemned Marine Le Pen to an immediate ineligibility of five years. Faced with “a massive offensive against the judicial institution and its independence”, the Socialist Party underlines in a press release that “no one is above the laws, even less those which aspire to the highest function of the State”, and calls to sign a petition entitled “Defend democracy, defend justice”.
06:00
In the National Assembly, an RN deputy took advantage of a debate on the Chemsex to denounce the “coup d’etat” of the judges
The deputy RN Frédéric Falcon took advantage Monday of his speaking time during a debate on the Chemsex in the National Assembly to castigate the “institutional coup” according to him perpetrated by the judges, after the conviction of Marine Le Pen to an immediate ineligibility for five years.
“Democracy in France is threatened. After the closure of two television channels, after the condemnation of a former President of the Republic (Nicolas Sarkozy, editor’s note) to heavier sorrows than those inflicted on certain drug traffickers, the politico-judicial system now prevents the main opponent of Emmanuel Macron from accessing the Presidency of the Republic,” said Frédéric Falcon. Believing that the country rocks “in an assumed dictatorship”, and taking it more broadly to the “system”, the MP has pointed out a decision which “threatens the legitimacy of the next presidential election”.