Between Marine and Jean-Marie Le Pen, the identical response to courtroom selections, an indication of continuity at work regardless of standardization efforts | EUROtoday

Since his condemnation at first occasion in a sentence of 5 years of ineligibility with provisional execution on Monday, March 31, the response of the chief of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, is paying homage to that of her father in 1998. The founding father of the National Front (FN, who turned RN) had been, earlier than her, condemned to a two -year ineligibility sentence – lowered to a 12 months on enchantment – Peulvast-Bergeal, the mayor of Mantes-la-Ville (Yvelines), throughout the 1997 legislative elections marketing campaign. At the time, the previous paratrooper and co-founder of the FN Roger Holeiner promised to “Return the journalists to the puppies”. “If necessary, we will be the first to press the relaxation”threatened the social gathering vice-president, Dominique Chaboche.

Twenty-seven years later, the tone has modified, however the technique stays. “We are more in the game of thirty-five resemblances than seven differences”notes the historian specializing within the excessive proper, Nicolas Lebourg, who believes that Marine Le Pen, like her father, is a part of “A story of alternative facts” in “Contesting a court decision on behalf of the rule of law”. The RN known as for an illustration in help of its File Place Vauban chef, in Paris, Sunday April 6. The watchwords – “Let us mobilize against the tyranny of judges”,, “For freedom”,, “Save democracy” -echo these of the organized rally, twenty-seven years earlier, in Versailles, by Jean-Marie Le Pen- “Le Pen Van, French affected”,, “Enough obstacles to freedoms” and protruding in opposition to “Totalitarianism” of the “Socialist prosecutors”.

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