Marine Le Pen assures that she won’t run for the 2027 presidential election if she has to put on an digital bracelet | EUROtoday

The 2027 presidential election will likely be held with out Marine Le Pen if the top of the National Rally (RN) deputies is condemned to put on an digital bracelet on the finish of the trial on the assistants of RN MEPs.

“We cannot campaign in these conditions”she estimated, Wednesday February 25, in an interview with the BFM-TV channel. “Finally, you can campaign without going to meetings in the evening to meet your voters? This would be another way of obviously preventing me from being a candidate” in 2027, added the one who has already run in three presidential elections.

Marine Le Pen will know on July 7 the choice of the Paris Court of Appeal within the case of the assistants of RN MEPs, after having been sentenced at first occasion to 2 years of sporting an digital bracelet and 5 years of ineligibility with quick execution.

“I know very well that the decision on this candidacy does not depend on me. Today it depends on three magistrates who will decide whether or not the millions of French people who want to vote for me will be able to do so or not.she said Wednesday evening.

“Jordan Bardella was never under my tutelage”

If she have been to be prevented, giving solution to Jordan Bardella, M^me Le Pen assured that she wouldn’t play with the present president of the celebration “a supervisory role”through the marketing campaign, as on the Elysée.

“If I cannot be a candidate and he is therefore a candidate, it is he who will determine at what level he needs my presence, my advice, the experience that is mine”she continued.

“Jordan Bardella was never under my tutelage. It never will be. He is a free, convinced man”insisted M^me Le Pen who repeated that she wouldn’t be a part of the federal government if Mr. Bardella was elected in 2027. “Jordan will find himself a prime minister, I have no doubt about that”she evacuated.

Furthermore, concerning the municipal elections in March, Marine Le Pen affirmed that it was not “no way” for the National Rally to withdraw candidates to be able to block these of France Insoumise (LFI), as requested by the minister delegate for the struggle towards discrimination, Aurore Bergé. “Removal from our lists is a violation of the trust that voters placed in you when they cast a ballot in the first round”she supported, ordering the minister to “keep your good ideas for your own political movement”.

Aurore Bergé requested the far-right celebration to withdraw from the cities “where LFI can win”. “When we reach the second round of municipal elections, we have opposition municipal councilors who are elected”recalled M^me Le Pen. Aurore Bergé’s proposal had already been contradicted by authorities spokesperson Maud Bregeon, who assured earlier within the day that she was not calling “the RN is for nothing”.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon “chose the strategy of the worst”

Marine Le Pen has not elsewhere focused the ” manner “ What does Jean-Luc Mélenchon have? “to insult, to push for hysterization of the political debate”whereas the “Insoumis” are accused by their political adversaries of getting a part of the accountability within the loss of life of far-right activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon.

“In the words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, there is a form of legitimization of violence”accused M^me Le Pen, who confronted the LFI chief in three presidential elections. “For a certain amount of time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has oscillated between the strategy of pacification and the strategy of the worst. And he chose the worst strategy, the strategy of intimidation. However, that poses a problem because, in the spirit of La France insoumise, everything to the right of La France insoumise is fascist”declared the boss of RN deputies.

M^me Le Pen additionally assured that his celebration had not “no structural link” with “small groups” ultra-right, which distinguished him “of the antifa movement which has structural links with La France insoumise”.

“I fired these small groups, I kicked them out. It was one of the first acts of my presidency of the National Front”pleaded the one who maintained friendships with members of the GUD (Union Defense Group), like Frédéric Châtillon.

In this context, the RN deputy Lisette Pollet needed to announce, on Wednesday, the dismissal of one among her parliamentary assistants, Vincent Claudin, because of the publication on X accounts beneath pseudonyms of racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic messages, revealed by Mediapart. Mr. Claudin additionally belonged to the small ultra-right group Lyon Populaire, which was the topic of dissolution proceedings.