The National Front, which became the National Rally, is accused of having been a ” drive belt of Russian power, according to the conclusions of the commission of inquiry into foreign interference.
Excerpts from the report, written by Renaissance MP Constance Le Grip, leaked on Thursday on Mediapart and RMC. She insists on alignment ” of the FN on the ” russian speech ” at time “ illegal annexation from Crimea in 2014. The year the FN took out a loan from a Russian bank. No causal link established with certainty by the commission, but the report points to the frequent contacts between elected FN then RN and Russian officials. ” There is a political party in France which has proven to be, much more than others, a privileged vector, a relay of a Russian narrative and speeches emanating from the Kremlin “, points out Constance Le Grip
It was the RN which had launched this parliamentary commission of inquiry, supposed to defuse the regular accusations on the subject. “ It’s the sprinkler watered “, comments the ecologist deputy Julien Bayou at the microphone of Pierrick Bonno, from the political service of RFI, while telling how the commission of which he is a member turned against the party which had triggered it. ” They wanted to play, they lost. That is to say that they really wanted to clear themselves with a commission of inquiry, well in the end, it ends with the hearing of Marine Le Pen who is put in difficulty where we make him recognize that there is a financial link with Russia. According to Julien Bayou, Marine Le Pen could have lied under oath during her hearing, suspicions of false testimony that some deputies wish to bring to justice.
A “ dishonest commission for Marine Le Pen
RN elected officials, including committee chairman Jean-Philippe Tanguy, voted against the report, adopted by 11 votes to five, according to a parliamentary source. LFI abstained. The report shows “ at least guilty casualness ” of the RN with regard to Russia, but it is not “ comprehensive on the influence of other states in France, said the Insoumis Aurélien Saintoul.
Marine Le Pen speaks of a “ dishonest commission » and denounces a « political trial “. The boss of the National Rally had been auditioned for four hours, last week. At a hastily called press conference, the commission’s RN chairman, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, expressed dismay, challenging the findings of a report he said “ off topic “And which comes to torpedo the message that the RN hoped to convey. “ I am truly appalled. Some conclude that we would be a transmission belt. There is currently nothing to establish these elements. On the contrary, it is not the responsibility of the parliamentary commission of inquiry and we are totally in the political process. »
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