how Marine Le Pen modified her protection technique | EUROtoday

Marine Le Pen modified her protection technique in the course of the enchantment trial of the European parliamentary assistants of the National Front (FN), which grew to become the National Rally (RN) in 2018. On September 30, 2024, in the course of the first trial, she instructed the press: “ We didn’t break any rules. » On January 14, 2026, at the opening of the appeal trial, the defense was no longer the same. “There was a parliamentary practice which was considered by RN deputies as an authorized practice and, overnight, the European Parliament told us: ‘No, the rules that you thought were the right ones are not the right ones’”, insisted Rodolphe Bosselut, Marine Le Pen’s lawyer.

If the road of protection has modified, it’s as a result of Marine Le Pen “plays its future both politically in the short term, but even definitive”analyzes Franck Johannès, journalist from World which follows the trial. Marine Le Pen was sentenced in the course of the first trial to 4 years in jail, together with two years beneath an digital bracelet, and to 5 years of ineligibility with provisional, that’s to say fast, execution. This is what at the moment prevents him from operating within the presidential election in 2027.