Fabrice Leggeri, former director of the EU agency responsible for border control, announced in an interview with Sunday newspaper join the National Rally list for the European elections. He will appear in 3rd place on Jordan Bardella’s list during the elections scheduled for next June.
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A strong rally for the National Rally: senior civil servant, enarque and normalien, Fabrice Leggeri held the leadership of Frontex from 2015 to 2022, before resigning. He was regularly accused by NGOs of tolerating illegal pushbacks of migrants and he had established himself as a defender of the impermeability of European borders.
His goal in this election is to “ put its experience and expertise at the service of the French “. A decision that he considers consistent with his career. Before heading Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri worked for the state, notably in the areas of security and immigration management, before resigning from the EU agency responsible for border control in 2022.
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Targeted by a non-public report from the European Anti-Fraud Office, he was accused of “ not having respected the procedures, having demonstrated disloyalty towards the European Union » and to be responsible for a “ poor personal management “. Accusations for which neither the European Parliament nor the board of directors of Frontex have not found concrete evidence, affirms Fabrice Leggeri in the JDD.
Well ahead in the polls for European elections with 30% of the votes, or 10 points ahead of the list of the presidential majority which still does not have a head of list, the National Rally achieves with this announcement a big win which gives even more credibility to the party.