Paris (AFP)
The president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen, who wishes to compete in the next presidential election, assured Tuesday on LCI that there would be "no ineligibility" for her before the election of 2022, despite her legal troubles.
Those who think otherwise "are wrong and do not know the law. They do not know that ineligibility is suspended on appeal", therefore "there will be no ineligibility before 2022", he said. she asserted.
"I reassure all those who count on my candidacy in 2022, I do not have this sword of Damocles above my head, even if I understood that it was used for that, all these cases that continue".
Ms. Le Pen was indicted in 2018 for "embezzlement of public funds" in the case of allegedly fictitious jobs of her party in the European Parliament.
Furthermore, when asked about her debate between the two presidential rounds of 2017 against Emmanuel Macron, the RN president said she did not think "that missing a debate calls into question the credibility of an entire career ".
"In terms of credibility, I don't have a lot to learn from those who are currently in power. When we look at the situation of debt, exploding insecurity, immigration they are not arriving clearly not to be regulated, they have demonstrated in two and a half years that they are not absolutely credible on any subject, "she argued.
Reaffirming to have learned the lessons of "a form of lack of preparation" in the face of this debate, she added: "Yes, I have a gash that shows that I have fallen, that I have taken blows. A policy, a politician, a real one, is someone who has also been able to cross the desert, suffer defeats, disappointments and yet has shown his solidity and his pugnacity. I think that we cannot take that away from me. "
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