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Right-wing leader Marine Le Pen, here in Rome on 8 October 2018 during a meeting with Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini in Rome. REUTERS / Max Rossi
Justice aggravates the indictment of Marine Le Pen in the case of fictitious presumed uses of the FN in the European Parliament. The President of the National Gathering, who continues to deny the allegations, was prosecuted for " breach of trust ", but is now for embezzlement of public funds as well. An offense punishable by ten years imprisonment and a million euros fine. A new judicial episode that could politically prejudice Marine Le Pen.
" You know, the harder the system goes, the more it strengthens us. For Jean-Lin Lacapelle, delegate to the resources of the party and close to Marine Le Pen , the decision of the examining magistrates is only the logical continuation of a supposed judicial persecution against the National Rally (RN, ex-National Front ) of which 20 elected officials are prosecuted. " We are in a crazy world, the first party in France does not even have a checkbook, but our voters are not fooled, " also confided Marine Le Pen a few days ago.
If the president of the RN knows that she has a sword of Damocles over her head, now risking up to 10 years in prison, the party, we show serenity and even a certain greed. According to the polls, the judicial troubles of the RN are, for the moment, not sanctioned by the voters. According to the latest poll ODOXA, the far-right party is neck and neck with En Marche at seven months of European women : " We are waiting for the next investigation, you will see, we will be ahead, " prognosis Jean-Lin Lacapelle.
No effect among voters, but perhaps on alliances. A few months ago, when Nicolas Dupont Aignan was still thinking about working with the RN, he set a condition: " that the accounts are not managed by the party of Marine Le Pen. "