At the RN, the Bardella speculation feeds the rivalries | EUROtoday

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Marine Le Pen, during a rally organized by the National Rally, Place Vauban, in Paris, April 6, 2025.

As with mourning, there was first denial, the day after his conviction, on March 31, at 5 years of ineligibility with provisional execution for embezzlement of public funds within the case of parliamentary assistants of the National Front (former title of the National Rally, RN) – she appealed. Then it was anger, with a rally organized at Place Vauban, in Paris, on April 6, to denounce the “Tyranny of judges”. Would the resignation stage be about to be crossed by Marine Le Pen?

Since his final look in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), Saturday April 12, throughout a Polish group occasion, the chief of the RN takes the “Time for reflection”based on an advisor. This didn’t stop him on Tuesday from feeding a brand new story on the speculation of his non-candidacy within the presidential election of 2027. Le Figarothe deputy for Pas-de-Calais now judges that it might be “Irresponsible” For his half to not withdraw from the race, if his sentence was confirmed on attraction in the summertime of 2026.

Marine Le Pen has thus far estimated that he was not “No question of considering a plan B before having gone to the end of plan A”. Here it breaks the taboo of its absence on the beginning line, able to go the relay to Jordan Bardella within the occasion of a brand new conviction. According to the Agency France-Presse, it’s already agreed that the president of the RN is invested candidate throughout a celebration congress scheduled for September 2026. In the occasion of the dissolution of the National Assembly, Jordan Bardella would additionally exchange Marine Le Pen on the head of the parliamentary group, benefiting from the passage of a parachute in a Var district to be elected to the Palais-Bourbon.

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