In France, the leader of the far right, Marine Le Pen, will hear the verdict in the trial of parliamentary assistants on March 31. The announcement was made this Wednesday, November 27. Marine Le Pen’s legal sequence therefore marks a pause, and the latter now wants to refocus attention on the vote on the 2025 budget.
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It is a painful legal sequence which lasted two months for Marine Le Penthe leader of the far-right, two months in the spotlight juggling between the National Assembly and the criminal court of Pariswith a very heavy stake: his ability to run or not in the 2027 presidential election.
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She is one of the defendants suspected of having hired assistants to European parliamentarians, whose missions, financed with money from the European Parliament, were in fact for the sole benefit of the National Rally, the far-right party. .
Focus on the budget
While waiting for the judges’ decision which will be rendered at the end of March, Marine Le Pen affirms: she is fully back in the political arena, focused on the vote on the 2025 budget. She thus assures that “ it is a question of knowing if we will succeed in changing a budget which is at the same time bad, unfair, violent and if that is not the case, to draw the political consequences. »
The National Rally knows it: it holds the future of the Barnier government in its hands. Party officials continue to increase pressure in the media by explaining that their deputies are entirely capable of voting for a motion of censure.
Blackmail and hope for the party: that final negotiations will allow the National Rally to obtain and be able to claim political gains from voters, such as reducing the state medical aid budget dedicated to foreigners.
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