The National Rally had already launched a "patriotic loan" in the spring of 2019. The party, which had to face the refusal of the banks to lend it money, had then raised four million euros. Rebelote a year later.
RN president Marine Le Pen announced in Gironde on Saturday the imminent launch of a new borrowing campaign from the French to finance his electoral campaigns, at a time when the movement was ordered by Russia to reimburse more than nine million euros.
Imminent launch
Marine Le Pen clarified that the launch of this loan, "in the coming days", was not linked to the repayment of this debt, but would "in particular" finance election campaigns. "From the moment the government refuses to set up a democracy bank, we will build our own democracy bank," she said during her trip.
Worn by François Bayrou when he was briefly Keeper of the Seals in 2017, the idea of a “democracy bank” had been buried by the government in mid-2018 on the grounds, in particular, of the problems of neutrality posed by the interference of the state in party funding.
"We will therefore effectively say to the French:" Since you are attached to the freedom of parties (...) it is you who will lend to political movements by replacing what is normally the work of the banks "", he said. -she adds.
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